WORLD 
CORPORATION 


BY 


KING  C.  GILLETTE 


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"World   Corporation" 


By    KING    CAMP    GILLETTE 

Discoverer  of  the  Principles  and  Inventor 
of  the  System  of  "World  Corporation" 


^T'HE  message  herein  con- 
-*•  tained  is  Truth;  nnd 
Truth  is  law,  no  matter  in 
what  dress  it  may  be  found  or  to 
what  it  may  apply.  When  dis- 
covered to  the  mind  of  man,  it 
must  be  accepted,  and  become 
a  part  of  the  great  superstruc- 
ture of  knowledge  and  prog- 
ress. It  is  immortal  and 
infinite. 


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THE  NEW  ENGLAND  NEWS  COMPANY 
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Copyright,  1910 
By  king  camp  GILLETTE 


Entered  at  Stationers'  Hall 


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NOTICE. 


Mr.  Gillette,  the  present  mriter  and  inventor  of  "  World  Corporation, "  has  for 
many  years  been  interested  in  social  and  industrial  problems,  and  has  published 
three  books  upon  these  subjects;  namely,  "The  Human  Drift,"  1894,  "Gillette's 
Social  Redemption,"  1907,  and  "Gillette's  Industrial  Solution,"  1908.  The 
last  two  books  were  tcritten  by  Mr.  M.  L.  Severy. 

These  three  books  in  their  exposition  of  Mr.  Gillette's  ideas  of  "  World  Corpora- 
tion" outlined  and  proposed  certain  protective  details  of  organization  then  con- 
sidered advisable,  but  which  Mr.  Gillette  does  not  now  consider  necessary.  There- 
fore, the  following  Charter,  By-laws,  and  Prospectus,  and  the  opinions  expressed, 
should  be  read  as  a  self-contained  proposition,  separate  and  apart  from  any  previous 
writings,  and  as  exhibiting  Mr.  Gillette's  individual  tiews  and  final  conclusions,  his 
personal  judgment  being  that  the  people  can  be  best  protected  and  safeguarded  by 
Publicity  and  the  World-wide  Character  of  "  World  Corporation." 

This  statement  is  written  at  request  of  Mr.  Severy  and  to  guard  against  any 
misunderstanding  by  those  who  have  read  any  of  the  previous  works. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


Part  One. 
"WORLD  CORPORATION"  PROSPECTUS. 

WORLD    CORPORATION 2 

ENTERING  WEDGE     3 

•'WORLD   CORPORATION"   CHARTER 12 

ARTICLES  OF  INCORPORATION 15 

"WORLD  CORPORATION"  BY-LAWS 31 

SYNOPSIS  OF   "WORLD   CORPORATION" 42 

PUBLICITY 51 

POLITICS 54 

LAUNCHING  OF   "WORLD   CORPORATION" 58 

"WORLD  CORPORATION"  REVOLUTIONARY 64 

Part  Two. 
THE  AUTOMATIC  LABOR  SYSTEM. 

SOWING   THE    SEED 74 

THE  AUTOMATIC  LABOR  SYSTEM 75 

MAN  CORPORATE 94 

Part  Three. 
THE  WASTE  OF  OUR  SYSTEM. 

"WORLD   CORPORATION"  NOT  A  DREAM 98 

THE  PROBLEM 99 

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vi  TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 

SHOULD  LABOR  BE  A  SLAVE? 110 

KINGS  AND  SLAVES 113 

REASON 118 

ECONOMIC  LAW 123 

THE  CHAIN  OF  EVENTS 128 

KNOWLEDGE  THE  ASSET  OF  A  NATION 133 

INDUSTRY  A  MACHINE 140 

PROGRESS  DEPENDENT  ON  BIRTH  OF  IDEAS 152 

NINETY  PER  CENT.  WASTE 157 

TRIBUTARY  INDUSTRIES 166 

POLITICS    IS    BUSINESS 172 

CONSERVATION 184 

THE  STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY 167 

UNITED  STATES  STEEL  CORPORATION 193 

ECONOMIC  LAW  APPLIED  TO  AGRICULTURE    . 198 

A  PREDICTION 205 

COMPETITION  FOR  WEALTH  IS  CRIME 210 

Part  Four. 
THE  OPEN  DOOR. 

A   THOUGHT 216 

ENTHUSIASM 217 

METROPOLIS 220 

OMEGA 238 


PART   ONE 


"WORLD   CORPORATION" 
PROSPECTUS 


WORLD 
CORPORATION. 


To  The  Public: 

The  following  Board  of  Directors  and  Officers 
have  been  elected  at  the  initial  organization 
of  World  Corporation. 

DIRECTORS, 
KING  C.  GILLETTE,  President  and  Treasurer. 

EDWARD  S.  CROCKETT, 

Vice-President  and  Secretary. 

CHARLES  A.  GAINES. 


The  first  offices  of  the  Corporation  have  been 
opened  in  the 

BEACON  BUILDING, 

No.  6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  U.S.A. 

Rooms  416  and  417, 

where  all  communications  should  be  addressed. 
WORLD  CORPORATION. 


tC^^C. 


WORLD 
COR  PORAT  ION. 


ENTERING  WEDGE. 

The  writer  takes  it  for  granted  that  the  reader  is 
familiar  with  the  principles  of  Industrial  Corpora- 
tion, whereby  any  number  of  individuals  may  sub- 
scribe varying  amounts  of  capital  to  a  common  fund 
for  a  definite  purpose,  on  a  basis  of  equity.  The 
questions, — How  many  individuals  may  thus  be 
bound  together? — How  large  may  be  the  capital 
stock? — How  varied  and  extensive  the  field  of 
operations? — are  no  longer  questions  of  speculation 
or  doubt.  Experience  teaches  us,  and  cumulative 
evidence  proves,  that  the  perfect  mechanism  of 
industrial  corporation  keeps  pace  with  its  growth, 
individuals  and  parts  being  fitted  in,  at  the  right 
time  and  in  the  right  place.     It  is  recognized  by 

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WORLD  CORPORATION'' 


CORPORATIONISTS  THAT  ECONOMY,  STABILITY,  AND 
ABSENCE  OF  FRICTION  ARE  STRIKING  CHARACTERISTICS 

OF  LARGE  CORPORATIONS,  and  the  larger  the  cor- 
poration is  and  the  more  diversified  and  extensive 
its  field  of  operations,  the  more  these  characteristics 
stand  forth,  and  the  more  National  the  corporation 
becomes  in  character,  until,  reaching  out  to  other 
lands,  it  partakes  of  a  World  System.  Thus  the 
trained  mind  of  business  and  finance  sees  no 
stopping-place  to  corporate  absorption  and  growth, 
except  final  absorption  of  all  the  World's  material 
assets  into  one  corporate  body,  under  the  directing 
control  of  one  corporate  mind. 

If  a  corporation  depended  for  direction  and  man- 
agement upon  one  individual  mind,  and  it  con- 
tinued to  grow  and  absorb  indefinitely,  it  would  out- 
grow his  capacity,  strength,  and  endurance,  and  fall 
of  its  own  weight  of  individual  responsibility.  But 
this  is  not  the  case,  for  in  large  modern  corporations 
responsibilities  of  management  rest  on  all  the  indi- 
vidual parts  that  are  necessary  to  its  operation, 
from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  each  in  that  propor- 
tion commensurate  with  his  position  in  the  cor- 
porate machine. 


WORLD  CORPORATION'' 


The  larger  a  corporation  is,  the  less  is  it  disturbed 
by  the  dropping  out  of  one  or  many  individuals, 
vacancies  are  quickly  filled,  and  no  effect  is  observed 
in  operation  or  management  of  the  corporation  as 
a  whole.     It  has  its  own  individual   life,  separate 
and  apart  from  the  individuals  that  make  up  its 
corporate  body  and  mind.     These  individual  units 
may  come  and  go  in   endless  procession  over  an 
endless  period  of  time  without  affecting  the  con- 
tinuous life   of  the  corporation.     There  are  many 
corporations  in  the  United  States  that  were  formed 
during  the  middle  of  the  last  century  which  to-day 
are  more  extensive  in  their  operations  and  better 
managed  than  ever  before  in  their  history.     Yet 
not  a  single  stockholder  or  employee  is  alive  who 
was  with  these  corporations  when  they  were  organ- 
ized.    One    by   one   they   have   dropped  out,  and 
others  have  taken  their  place,  and  through  all  these 
changes  the  corporations  have  lived  and  flourished, 
have   extended,    absorbed,  combined,    and  consoli- 
dated until  to-day  they  are  great  systems, — giants 
that  pulsate  with  life,  over  whose  arteries  of  steel 
sustenance    and   wealth    are    carried    to    a   whole 
nation,  and  the  day  is  fast  approaching  when  these 


6  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

great   corporations,   the   Railroads    of    the   United 
States,  will  be  one  comprehensive  system. 

The  economic  value  of  corporation  is  being  recog- 
nized more  and  more  by  the  business  world,  and 
resulting  in  rapid  changes,  from  a  competitive  sys- 
tem of  cut-throat  guerilla  warfare  to  a  scientific  cor- 
porate system.  During  this  evolutionary  process  the 
opportunity  to  make  large  fortunes  is  possible.  Men 
of  quick  perception  and  great  financial  and  executive 
ability  become  the  seers  and  prophets  of  their  genera- 
tion. They  see  far  into  the  future,  and  discount 
that  future  by  coming  to  the  front  as  promoters, 
and  by  securing  options  on  competitive  plants  of 
industry  and  bringing  them  together  into  great  non- 
competitive corporate  bodies  they  are  able  to  make 
enormous  profits.  As  an  example,  in  the  flotation 
of  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation,  the  pro- 
moters' profits  were,  in  round  numbers,  one  hundred 
million  dollars  ($100,000,000).  This  profit  was  di- 
vided among  the  promoters,  and  was  the  difference 
between  the  purchase  price  of  the  different  plants 
and  the  price  paid  by  the  public  in  the  purchase  of 
the  shares  and  securities  of  the  new  corporation. 
This  one  hundred  million  ($100,000,000)  profit  to 


''WORLD  CORPORATION 


promoters  represents  an  estimated  annual  saving 
secured  by  corporation  of  $5,000,000  capitalized 
twenty  times.  These  profits  are  legitimate  under 
our  present  system,  and  these  far-seeing  men  not 
only  deserve  what  they  make,  but  they  deserve 
the  thanks  of  every  individual  in  the  world,  for 
their  work  of  organization  is  that  of  the  pioneer 
who  blazes  the  way  for  greater  things   to  follow. 

Graft,  as  far  as  the  United  States  Steel  Corpora- 
tion is  concerned,  is  at  an  end.  No  matter  what 
profit  was  made  by  the  promoters,  its  securities  are 
now  listed  and  quoted  at  an  apparent  legitimate 
value  based  on  earnings.  To-day  it  is  a  National 
Corporation,  and  every  year  will  see  it  less  and  less 
in  danger  of  individual  control.  It  is  too  large,  too 
much  in  the  public  eye  to  permit  of  dishonest  man- 
agement or  manipulation. 

Bringing  together  by  corporation  a  large  num- 
ber of  competitive  plants  effects  great  economies 
in  management  and  cost  of  production  and  distri- 
bution, and  incidentally  eliminates  many  tributary 
industries  of  a  competitive  system  that  are  in  no 
way  necessary  to  a  corporate  system.  These  econo- 
mies  which   would    accrue   to   the   benefit    of    the 


8  ''WORLD  CORPORATION" 

people,  under  different  circumstances,  are  absorbed 
in  the  profits  to  promoters. 

Notwithstanding  these  seemingly  crooked  ways  of 
making  large  fortunes,  the  underlying  principles  of 
corporations  are  right,  and  a  great  step  in  advance 
over  competition.  Each  corporation  formed  is  a 
more  economic  machine  for  accomplishing  some 
definite  result  and  a  step  nearer  a  definite  economic 
goal,  and  any  obstruction  by  law  or  otherwise  which 
retards  their  formation  or  growth  is  the  insanity 
of  inexcusable  ignorance,  and  criminal.  It  is  tanta- 
mount to  using  the  sledge  on  the  reaping  machine, 
the  printing-press,  and  dynamo,  and  going  back  to 
the  primitive  ways  of  our  forefathers. 

We  had  better  stand  for  graft  in  consolidation  of 
industries  by  individuals  rather  than  oppose  cor- 
poration, for  IT  IS  ONLY  DURING  THE  PROCESS  OF 
CHANGING     FROM     ONE     SYSTEM     TO     ANOTHER     THAT 

GRAFT  IS  POSSIBLE.  Individuals  are  necessary  fac- 
tors in  bringing  together  the  scattered  competitive 
parts  of  industry,  for  by  corporation  they  organize 
industries  and  get  them  in  shape  to  be  listed  on  our 
exchanges  and  within  reach  of  the  people  to  absorb. 
Tendency  towards  corporation  is  the  operation  of 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  9 

the  same  economic  law  that  displaces  a  machine  in 
a  factory  because  a  more  economical  machine  has 
been  invented  to  do  the  work.  To  believe  this 
law  will  cease  to  operate,  or  that  man  can  legislate 
barriers  to  prevent  its  operation,  is  equal  to  be- 
lieving that  man  could  enact  laws  and  thereby 
prevent     terrestrial     gravitation.       Corporations 

WILL  CONTINUE  TO  FORM,  ABSORB,  EXPAND,  AND 
GROW,    AND   NO    POWER    OF   MAN    CAN    PREVENT    IT. 

Promoters  are  the  true  socialists  of  this  genera- 
tion, the  actual  builders  of  a  co-operative  system 
which  is  eliminating  competition,  and  in  a  practical 
business  way  reaching  results  which  socialists  have 
vainly  tried  to  attain  through  legislation  and  agita- 
tion for  centuries.  To  complete  the  industrial 
evolution,  and  establish  a  system  of  equity,  only 
requires  a  belief  in  the  truths  herein  stated — and 
the  support  of  "World  Corporation." 


WORLD   CORPORATION" 


CHARTER 


THE   CHARTER. 

On  the  opposite  page  is  given  a  reduced  fac-simile 
of  the  cover  sheet  of  "World  Corporation"  Char- 
ter, and  in  the  pages  following  the  Charter  is  given 
in  full,  word  for  word,  as  granted. 

Particular  attention  is  called  to  Article  IV.,  in 
which  it  will  be  noted  that  the  Capital  Stock  of 
"World  Corporation"  is  not  a  definite  stated 
AMOUNT,  as  is  the  case  with  every  other  corporation, 
but  IS  progressive  and  unlimited,  and,  at  any 
present  moment,  is  represented  by  actual  dollars 
that  have  been  paid  into  the  corporation,  for  which 
shares  have  been  issued,  less  the  number  of  dollars 
paid  to  stockholders,  by  "World  Corporation" 
for  shares  which  have  been  surrendered  and  can- 
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ARTICLES  OF  INCORPORATION. 

Be  it  known,  That  we,  the  undersigned,  do 
hereby  associate  ourselves  together  for  the  pur- 
pose of  forming  a  corporation  under  and  pursu- 
ant to  the  laws  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona  and 
do  hereby  certify  to  and  adopt  the  following  Ar- 
ticles of  Incorporation: — 

Article  I.     The  name  of  the  Corporation  is 
World    Corporation. 

Article  II.  The  principal  place  of  transacting 
business  in  Arizona  is  Phcenix,  but  offices  may  be 
established,  business  transacted  and  meetings  of  the 

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16  "WORLD  CORPORATION 


Stockholders  and  of  the  Directors  held  at  such  places 
within  or  outside  of  Arizona  as  the  By-Laws  of  the 
Company  shall  provide.  Notice  of  all  annual  or 
special  meetings  of  the  Stockholders  shall  be  given 
by  printed  notice  in  the  World  Corporation 
News,  a  weekly  publication  which  shall  be  issued 
by  the  Corporation  for  the  information  of  its  Stock- 
holders. 

Article  III.  The  general  nature  of  the  business 
proposed  to  be  transacted  and  the  objects  for  which 
the  Corporation  is  formed  are:  to  acquire  by  pur- 
chase, subscription  or  otherwise,  and  to  hold  as  an 
investment,  any  bonds  or  other  securities  or  evidences 
of  indebtedness,  or  any  shares  of  capital  stock 
created  or  issued  by  any  other  corporation  or  cor- 
porations, association  or  associations,  of  the  Terri- 
tory of  Arizona,  or  of  any  other  place;  to  purchase, 
hold,  sell,  assign,  transfer,  mortgage,  pledge  or  other- 
wise dispose  of  any  bonds  or  other  securities  or  evi- 
dences of  indebtedness  created  or  issued  by  any 
other  corporation  or  corporations,  association  or 
associations  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona,  or  of  any 
other  place,  and  while  owner  thereof,  to  exercise  all 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  17 


rights,  powers  and  privileges  of  ownership;  to  pur- 
chase, hold,  sell,  assign,  transfer,  mortgage,  pledge  or 
otherwise  to  dispose  of  shares  of  the  capital  stock  of 
any  other  corporation  or  corporations,  association  or 
associations  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona,  or  of  any 
other  place,  and  while  the  owner  of  such  stock  to 
exercise  all  the  rights,  powers  and  privileges  of 
ownership,  including  the  right  to  vote  thereon;  to 
aid  in  any  manner,  any  corporation  or  association 
of  which  any  bonds,  or  other  securities  or  evidences 
of  indebtedness  or  of  stock  are  held  by  the  corpora- 
tion, and  to  do  any  acts  and  things  designed  to 
protect,  preserve,  improve  or  enhance  the  value  of 
any  such  bonds  or  other  securities  or  evidences  of 
indebtedness  or  stock;  to  acquire,  own  and  hold 
such  real  and  personal  property,  anywhere  in  the 
world,  as  may  be  necessary  or  convenient  for  the 
transaction  of  its  business,  and  to  mortgage  and 
convey  the  same;  the  business  or  purpose  of  the 
corporation  is  from  time  to  time  to  do  any  one  or 
more  of  the  acts  and  things  herein  set  forth,  and  the 
Corporation  shall  have  power  to  conduct  its  business 
in  any  and  all  parts  of  the  world.  The  Corporation 
shall  have  full  power  to  make  contracts,  to  purchase, 


18  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

lease,  option,  locate,  or  otherwise  acquire,  own, 
exchange,  sell,  or  otherwise  dispose  of,  pledge, 
mortgage,  hypothecate  and  deal  in  mines,  mining 
claims,  mineral  claims,  and  lands,  coal  lands,  oil 
lands,  timber  lands,  water  and  water  rights  and 
other  property  and  to  work,  explore,  operate  and 
develop  the  same,  and  to  deal  in  the  products  and 
by-products  thereof;  to  purchase,  lease,  or  to  other- 
wise acquire,  erect,  own,  operate  and  sell  smelting 
and  other  ore  reduction  works,  oil  refineries,  saw- 
mills, power  plants,  railroads  and  tramways  to  serve 
as  common  carriers,  outside  of  the  Territory  of 
Arizona;  to  do  a  general  manufacturing  and  mer- 
cantile business;  to  own,  handle  and  control  letters 
patent  and  inventions;  to  own,  cancel  and  re-issue 
shares  of  its  own  capital  stock  and  to  own  and  vote 
shares  of  other  corporations;  to  issue  bonds,  notes 
and  other  evidences  of  indebtedness  and  to  secure 
the  payment  of  the  same  in  any  manner  deemed 
best  and  advisable  by  the  Board  of  Directors;  to 
act  as  agent,  trustee,  broker,  or  in  any  other  fidu- 
ciary capacity,  and  to  borrow  and  loan  money;  and 
in  general  to  do  and  perform  such  acts  and  things 
and  transact  such  business,   not  inconsistent  with 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  19 

law,  in  any  part  of  the  world,  as  the  Board  of  Direc- 
tors may  deem  to  the  advantage  of  the  Corporation. 

Article  IV.  The  Capital  Stock  of  the  Cor- 
poration SHALL  be  divided  INTO  COMMON  SHARES 
OF    THE    PAR    VALUE    OF    OnE    DoLLAR     ($1)     EACH, 

and  shall  be  limited  only  in  number,  from 
time  to  time,  to  the  number  of  dollars  paid 
into  the  treasury  of  the  corporation  for 
shares  of  stock  in  the  corporation,  less  the 
number  of  dollars  which  may  be  refunded, 
from  time  to  time,  to  the  owners  of  any 
shares  of  stock  upon  return  by  them  to  the 
Corporation  of  said  stock  for  purchase  and 
CANCELLATION  BY  THE  CORPORATION.  The  Cor- 
poration shall  have  the  power  to  purchase  its 
own  stock.  No  money  received  in  payment  for 
stock  of  the  Corporation  shall  be  loaned  by  it 
nor  used  for  any  other  purpose  than  the  pur- 
chase of  the  bonds  or  other  securities  or  evi- 
dences of  indebtedness,  or  shares  of  the  Capital 
Stock  of  other  Corporations,  or  for  the  purchase  of 
personal  property  or  real  estate  only  as  heretofore 
set  forth.    No  shares  of  stock  of  the  Corpora- 


20  ''WORLD  CORPORATION 


TION  SHALL  BE  ISSUED  EXCEPT  ACTUAL  PAYMENT  TO 

THE  Corporation  be  made  therefor  in  the  cur- 
rency OF  THE  United  States  or  its  equivalent 
IN  THE  CURRENCY  OF  ANY  OTHER  NATION.  The  Cor- 
poration shall  issue  to  any  person  or  persons,  trus- 
tees, corporations,  associations  or  others,  as  many- 
shares  of  stock  in  the  Corporation  as  they  shall 
make  tender  of  payment  for.  Certificates  of  stock 
in  this  Corporation  shall  be  issued  only  in  the 
following  denominations.  One,  Two,  Five,  Ten, 
Twenty,  Fifty,  One  Hundred,  One  Thousand, 
Ten  Thousand,  Fifty  Thousand,  Five  Hundred 
Thousand,  and  One  Million  Shares. 

Certificates  of  stock  of  Twenty  (20)  Shares, 
or  less,  shall  not  be  subject  to  registration  and 
shall  not  participate  in  the  dividends  of  the  Cor- 
poration. 

Certificates  of  stock  of  Fifty  (50)  or  more  shares 
may  be  registered  with  the  Treasurer  of  the  Cor- 
poration and  if  so  registered  shall  participate  in 
the  dividends  of  the  Corporation.  Any  certificates 
of  stock  of  Fifty  (50)  or  more  shares,  until  so  regis- 
tered, shall  not  participate  in  the  dividends  of  the 
Corporation. 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  21 

All  certificates  of  stock  in  denomination  of  Twenty 
(20)  shares  or  less  and  all  certificates  of  stock  in 
denomination  of  Fifty  (50)  shares  or  more,  which 
shall  not  have  been  registered,  shall  be  redeemed  at 
par  by  the  Corporation  upon  presentation  and 
demand. 

Dividends  shall  only  be  credited  to  registered 
shares  that  had  been  issued  for  the  full  term  of  one 
calendar  quarterly  dividend  period. 

Dividends  shall  be  credited  and  payable  to  regis- 
tered shareholders  quarterly,  on  the  first  day  of 
January,  April,  July,  and  October. 

Dividends  shall  be  paid  by  check  of  the  Corpora- 
tion, or  upon  request  of  those  entitled  thereto,  said 
dividends  may  be  paid  in  shares  of  the  Capital 
Stock  of  this  Corporation  at  par. 

Registered  certificates  of  stock  will  be  redeemed 
by  the  Corporation  at  par,  with  accrued  dividends 
thereon,  only  at  the  close  of  the  quarterly  dividend- 
paying  period  following  the  quarterly  period  in 
which  presentation  and  demand  of  said  certificates 
are  made. 

The  Corporation's  affairs  shall  be  managed  by  a 
Board  of  Directors,  at  the  present  time,  but  the 


22  ''WORLD  CORPORATION 


members  of  such  Board  of  Directors  from  each 
nation  shall  elect  one  out  of  every  ten  of  their  num- 
ber to  a  delegate  body,  which  shall  be  known  as  the 
World  Corporation  Congress. 

In  said  World  Corporation  Congress,  consti- 
tuted as  above  stated,  shall  be  reposed  the  supreme 
authority  of  the  Corporation,  and  all  Officers,  Com- 
mittees, National  Directory  Boards,  and  all  other 
constituted  authorities,  agents,  employees,  or  ele- 
ments of  the  Corporation  shall  be  subject  to  the 
authority  of  the  World  Corporation  Congress, 
which  shall  have  the  right,  at  all  times,  to  assume  the 
absolute  direction  and  control  of  any  or  all  of  the 
activities  of  the  World  Corporation  or  of  any  of 
its  parts. 

The  World  Corporation  Congress  may  at  its 
option,  at  any  time,  in  such  manner  as  it  shall  deem 
just  and  proper,  call  in  for  redemption  and  can- 
cellation, any  portion  of  the  stock  of  the  Corpora- 
tion outstanding,  paying  par  therefor,  and  the  said 
World  Corporation  Congress,  as  soon  as  prac- 
ticable after  the  W^orld  Corporation  has  reduced 
to  its  possession  and  control,  all  agencies  for 
production  and  distribution  throughout  the  world, 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  23 


to  redeem  all  of  its  stock,  after  which  time,  the 
assets  of  the  Corporation  shall  be  the  joint  prop- 
erty, in  equal  shares,  of  all  the  peoples  of  the 
earth. 


Article  V.  The  time  of  the  commencement  of 
the  Corporation  shall  be  the  day  these  Articles  are 
filed  in  the  office  of  the  Territorial  Auditor  of  Arizona, 
and  it  shall  endure  and  be  perpetual  forever. 

Article  VI.  The  affairs  of  this  Corporation  shall 
at  the  present  time,  as  heretofore  provided,  be  con- 
trolled by  a  Board  of  Directors  the  number  of  which 
shall  be  fixed,  from  time  to  time  by  the  By-Laws 
of  the  Corporation,  but  said  number  shall  not  be 
less  than  three  (3).  Until  their  successors  are 
elected  and  qualified  the  following  named  persons 
shall  be  the  directors:  King  C.  Gillette,  Charles 
A.  Gaines,  Edward  S.  Crockett. 

The  Board  of  Directors  and  the  Stockholders  of 
the  Corporation  shall  have  power  to  hold  their 
meetings  outside  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona,  at 
such  place   as,  from   time   to    time,  may   be    fixed 


24  ''WORLD   CORPORATION'' 

and  designated  by  the  By-Laws  or  by  resolutions  of 
the  Board  of  Directors. 

Any  officer  elected  or  appointed,  in  the  Corpora- 
tion, may  be  removed  by  the  body  electing  him  or 
her,  at  any  time,  by  the  affirmative  vote  of  as 
large  a  majority  as  that  required  for  his,  or  her, 
election. 

The  Board  of  Directors  by  the  affirmative  vote 
of  a  majority  of  the  whole  Board,  may  appoint 
from  the  Directors  an  Executive  Committee,  of 
which  a  majority  shall  constitute  a  quorum;  such 
Committee  shall  have  and  may  exercise  all  or  any 
of  the  powers  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  including 
the  power  to  cause  the  seal  of  the  Corporation  to 
be  affixed  to  all  papers  that  may  require  it. 

The  Board  of  Directors  may  elect  a  President, 
one  or  more  Vice-Presidents,  a  Secretary,  a  Treas- 
urer, and  appoint  one  or  more  assistant  Treasurers, 
and  one  or  more  assistant  Secretaries,  and  such 
other  Officers  as  may  be  provided  for  in  the  By-Laws 
of  the  Corporation. 

The  Board  of  Directors,  from  time  to  time,  shall 
determine  whether  and  to  what  extent,  and  at  what 
times  and  places,  and  under  what  conditions  and 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  25 

regulations,  the  accounts  and  books  of  the  Corpora- 
tion, or  any  of  them,  shall  be  open  to  the  inspection 
of  the  Stockholders,  and  no  stockholder  shall  possess 
the  power  or  right  to  inspect  any  account  or  book 
or  document  of  the  Corporation,  except  as  con- 
ferred by  statute  of  the  Territory  of  Arizona,  or 
authorized  by  the  Board  of  Directors,  or  by  a 
resolution  of  the  Stockholders. 

The  Board  of  Directors  may  make  By-Laws,  and 
from  time  to  time  may  alter,  amend,  or  repeal  any 
By-Laws;  but  any  By-Laws  made  by  the  Board 
of  Directors  may  be  altered  or  repealed  by  the 
Stockholders  at  any  annual  meeting,  or  at  any 
special  meeting,  provided  notice  of  such  proposed 
alteration  or  repeal  be  included  in  the  notice  of 
the  meeting. 

Article  VII.  The  highest  amount  of  indebted- 
ness of  the  Corporation  shall  not  exceed  Two- 
Thirds  the  amount  of  the  Capital  Stock  issued  at 
the  time  of  incurring  such  indebtedness. 

Article  VHI.  The  private  property  of  the 
Stockholders   of   the  Corporation   shall   be    forever 


26  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

exempt  from  corporate   debts  of  any  kind   what- 
soever. 

In    Witness    Whereof,    We    hereto   aflSx    our 
signatures  this  8th  day  of  June,  1910. 

R.  M.  PEABODY     [seal.] 
M.  T.  STONE  [seal.] 


Territory  of  Arizona 
County  or  Maricopa 


Before  me,  M.  A.  Pickett,  a  Notary  Public  in  and 
for  the  County  and  Territory  aforesaid,  on  this  day 
personally  appeared  R.  M.  Peabody  and  M.  T. 
Stone,  known  to  me  to  be  the  same  persons  who 
signed  the  foregoing  instrument  and  acknowledged 
to  me  that  they  executed  the  same  for  the  uses  and 
purposes  therein  mentioned. 

Given  under  my  hand  and  seal  of  office  this  8th 
day  of  June,  1910. 

My  commission  will  expire  on  the  16th  day  of 

April,  1914. 

M.  A.  PICKETT, 

Notary  Public. 
[notarial  seal.] 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  27 


Territory  of  Arizona 
County  of  Maricopa 


A,) 


I,  C.  F.  Leonard,  County  Recorder  in  and  for  the 
County  and  Territory  aforesaid,  hereby  certify  that 
I  have  compared  the  foregoing  copy  with  the  original 
Articles  of  Incorporation  of  "WORLD  CORPORA- 
TION" filed  and  recorded  in  my  office  on  the  8th 
day  of  June,  1910,  and  that  the  same  is  a  full,  true 
and  correct  copy  of  such  original  and  of  the  whole 
thereof. 

Witness  my  hand  and  seal  of  office,  this  8th  day 

of  June,  1910. 

C.  F.  LEONARD, 

County  Recorder. 
[seal.] 

Filed  in  the  office  of  the  Territorial  Auditor  of 
the  Territory  of  Arizona  this  8th  day  of  June,  A.D. 
1910,  at  1.30  P.M.,  at  request  of  Stoddard  In- 
corporating Company  whose   post-office  address  is 

Phoenix,  Arizona. 

W.  C.  FOSTER, 

Territorial  Auditor. 


WORLD   CORPORATION" 


BYLAAVS 


"WOKLD   CORPOEATION" 
BY-LAWS. 


STOCKHOLDERS. 

Stockholders'  meetings  shall  be  held  at  the  prin- 
cipal office  or  place  of  business  of  this  Corporation 
in  the  City  of  Boston,  in  the  Commonwealth  of 
Massachusetts,  until  such  time  as  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors shall  determine  otherwise. 

A  notice  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Stockholders 
and  of  all  special  meetings  shall  be  given  by  printed 
notice  in  the  "World  Corporation  News,"  a 
weekly  publication  owned  and  controlled  by  "World 
Corporation."  The  annual  meetings  of  Stock- 
holders shall  be  held  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  Jan- 
uary at  two  o'clock  P.M. 

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32  ''WORLD  CORPORATION" 


STOCK    CERTIFICATES. 

No  shares  of  stock  of  the  Corporation  shall  be 
issued  except  actual  payment  to  the  Corporation 
be  made  therefor  in  the  currency  of  the  United 
States  or  its  equivalent  in  the  currency  of 

OTHER   nations. 

"World  Corporation"  shall  issue  to  any  person 
or  persons,  trustees,  corporations,  associations  or 
others,  as  many  shares  of  stock  in  the  Corporation 
as  they  shall  make  tender  of  payment  for. 

DENOMINATION. 

Certificates  of  stock  in  "World  Corporation" 
shall  be  issued  only  in  the  following  denominations: 
One,  Two,  Five,  Ten,  Twenty,  Fifty,  One  Hun- 
dred, One  Thousand,  Ten  Thousand,  Fifty 
Thousand,  One  Hundred  Thousand,  Five  Hun- 
dred Thousand,  and  One  Million  Shares. 

SIZE   AND    SHAPE. 

Certificates  of  stock  in  denomination  of  Twenty 
(20)  shares  or  less  shall  conform  in  size  and  shape 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  33 

to  United  States  current  bills  of  exchange, 
each  denomination  distinctive  in  design. 

Certificates  of  Fifty  (50)  or  more  shares  shall  be 

of  THE  SIZE  AND  SHAPE  OF  BaNK  OF  ENGLAND  NOTES, 

each  denomination  distinctive  in  design. 

REGISTRATION   AND    DIVIDENDS. 

Certificates  of  stock  of  Twenty  (20)  shares 
or  less  shall  not  be  subject  to  registration 
and  shall  not  participate  in  the  dividends  of 
the  corporation. 

Certificates  of  stock  of  Fifty  (50)  or  more  shares 
may  be  registered  with  the  treasurer  of  the  Corpo- 
ration, and,  IF  so  registered,  shall  participate  in 

THE  DIVIDENDS  OF  THE  CORPORATION. 

Registered  shares  of  stock  will  be  redeemed  by 
*' World  Corporation"  at  par,  with  accrued  divi- 
dends thereon  at  the  close  of  any  quarterly  dividend- 
paying  period,  immediately  following  the  quarterly 
period  in  which  presentation  and  demand  for  re- 
demption of  shares  has  been  made. 

All  certificates  of  stock  in  denomination  of  Twenty 
(20)  shares  or  less,  and  all  certificates  of  stock  in 


34  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

denomination  of  Fifty  (50)  shares  or  more,  which 
HAVE  NOT  BEEN  REGISTERED  shall  be  redeemed  at 
par  by  "World  Corporation"  upon  demand. 

Dividends  will  be  paid  to  registered  shareholders 
quarterly,  on  the  1st  day  of  January,  April,  July, 
and  October. 

Dividends  will  only  be  paid  on  registered  shares 
that  have  been  issued  and  registered  for  a  full  cal- 
endar quarterly  dividend  period.  No  dividends  will 
be  paid  on  shares  registered  for  fractional  parts  of 
quarterly  periods. 

Dividends  will  be  paid  by  check  of  the  Corpora- 
tion, or,  upon  request,  dividends  may  be  paid  in 
shares  of  the  Corporation  at  par  and  credited  to 
Share  Account. 


INCOME    OF    SHARES    NOT    REGISTERED. 

The  income  accruing  to  the  Corporation  from 
all  outstanding  certificates  of  stock  of  Twenty  (20) 
shares  or  less,  and  from  all  outstanding  certificates 
of  Fifty  (50)  shares  or  more,  which  have  not  been 
registered  and  are  not  entitled  to  dividends,  will 
be  applied,  First, — To   expenses  incident  to  opera- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  35 

tion  of  Corporation;  Second, — To  development  and 
expansion;  Third, — To  increase  dividends  on  reg- 
istered shares. 

DIRECTORS  (General). 

At  the  organization  of  "World  Corporation" 
not  less  than  three  nor  more  than  twenty-five  Di- 
rectors shall  be  elected,  the  number  to  be  determined 
by  vote  of  the  organizers  at  said  organization  meet- 
ing and  thereafter  at  each  annual  stockholders* 
meeting.  In  addition  to  the  number  of  Directors 
determined  upon  at  said  organization  meeting,  there 
shall  be  elected  one  Director  for  each  Five  Million 
(5,000,000)  shares  of  stock  of  the  Corporation  which 
have  been  issued  up  to  the  date  of  any  such  annual 
stockholders'  meeting,  with  the  exception  that  any 
stock  represented  on  the  Board  of  Directors,  by 
the  method  set  forth  in  the  following  paragraph, 
shall  not  be  counted  in  computing  the  number  of 
Directors  to  be  so  elected. 

DIRECTORS  (Special). 

Any  Bank,  Trust  Company,  Corporation,  So- 
ciety, Individual,  or  group  of  Individuals  in  special 


36  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

cities  or  localities,  who  collectively  purchase  in  one 
name  Five  Million,  or  any  multiple  of  Five  Million 
shares  of  stock  of  the  Corporation,  shall  be  entitled 
to  appoint  one  Director  to  *' World  Corporation" 
for  each  five  million  shares  of  stock  so  purchased, 
it  being  a  condition  of  such  appointment  that  the 
compensation  and  expenses  of  said  Director  or  Di- 
rectors SHALL  BE  PAID  BY  SAID  DiRECTOr's  CON- 
STITUENTS. 

AGENTS   FOR   SALE    OF   STOCK. 

Every  Bank  and  Trust  Company  in  the  United 
States  will  be  invited  to  co-operate  with  this  Cor- 
poration, by  acting  as  authorized  agents  for  the  sale 
of  "World  Corporation"  Shares. 

NATIONAL   FINANCE    BOARDS. 

The  members  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  each 
Nation  shall  be  constituted  a  National  Board  of 
Finance,  with  power  to  control  the  investment  of 
money  received  by  such  Nation,  from  its  sale  of 
shares,  subject,  however,  to  the  will  of  the  "World 
Corporate  Congress"  hereinafter  provided  for. 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  37 


"WORLD    CORPORATE    CONGRESS." 

The  members  of  the  Boards  of  Directors  of  Na- 
tions shall  elect  out  of  their  body  one  National 
Representative  out  of  each  ten  of  their  number  to 
a  delegate  body,  which  shall  be  known  as  the  "World 
Corporate  Congress." 

In  said  "Congress,"  constituted  as  above,  shall 
be  reposed  the  supreme  authority  of  "World  Cor- 
poration," and  all  Officers,  Committees,  National 
Boards  of  Finance,  and  all  other  constituted  au- 
thorities, agents,  employees,  or  elements  of  the  Cor- 
poration shall  be  subject  to  the  authority  of  the 
"World  Corporate  Congress,"  which  shall  have 
the  right  at  all  times  to  assume  absolute  direction 
and  control  of  any  or  all  of  the  activities  of  "World 
Corporation  "  or  of  any  of  its  parts. 


SECURITIES. 

All  Securities  purchased  by  "World  Corpora- 
tion" shall  be  forwarded  to  the  "World  Corpo- 
rate Congress"  and  be  deposited  with  the  World 


38  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

Corporate  Treasury,  which  shall  be  the  permanent 
depository  for  said  Securities. 


TERM    OF    OFFICE. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  Stockholders  all  Na- 
tional Directors  shall  be  elected  for  a  period  of 
one  year  from  the  date  of  said  meeting,  or  until 
their  successors  are  elected. 

All  Directors  appointed  by  any  Bank,  Trust  Com- 
pany, Corporation,  Society,  Individual,  or  group 
of  Individuals,  shall  hold  office  until  removed  by 
the  persons  or  bodies  electing  them,  or  until  such 
persons  or  bodies  shall  appoint  successors,  and  in 
any  event  only  so  long  as  they  shall  represent  an 
independent  share  allotment  of  5,000,000  shares. 

As  soon  as  possible  after  the  annual  Stockholders' 
meeting  of  the  Corporation,  Directors  shall  meet  and 
elect  representatives  to  the  "World  Corporate 
Congress,"  who  shall  hold  office  for  a  period  of 
one  year  from  the  date  of  their  election  or  until 
their  successors  are  chosen. 


"WORLD  CORPORATION"  39 


INVESTIGATION  OF  SECURITIES. 

The  various  National  Boards  of  Finance  shall 
appoint  Committees,  from  their  number,  for  the 
purpose  of  investigating  Industrial  Securities  and 
obtaining  exact  knowledge  of  their  value,  and  to 
secure  such  other  information  as  may  be  of  value 
to  the  Corporation  in  the  purchase  of  Securities. 

ELECTION  OF  OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES. 

The  Boards  of  Directors,  the  various  National 
Boards  of  Finance,  and  the  "World  Corporate 
Congress  "  shall  have  the  right  to  elect  such  Officers 
and  Committees  as  they  shall  deem  necessary  for 
the  prosecution  of  the  work  for  which  they  are 
organized. 

FINAL  REDEMPTION  OF  ALL  STOCK. 

The  "World  Corporate  Congress"  may,  at 
its  option,  at  any  time,  in  such  manner  as  it  shall 
deem  just  and  proper,  upon  a  majority  vote  of  its 
members,  call  in  for  redemption  and  cancellation 
any  portion  of  the  stock  of  the  Corporation  outstand- 


40  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

ing,  paying  par  value  therefor;  and  it  shall  be  the 
imperative  duty  of  said  *' World  Corporate  Con- 
gress," as  soon  as  practicable  after  "World  Cor- 
poration "  has  reduced  to  its  possession  and  control 
all  agencies  for  production  and  distribution  through- 
out the  world,  to  redeem  all  outstanding  shares  by 
the  establishment  of  a  sinking  fund  for  that  purpose, 
after  which  time  the  assets  of  the  Corporation  shall 
be  the  joint  property  of  the  people, — Incorporated 
AND  Undivided. 

NOTE. 
It  is  hoped  and  believed  that  the  number  of 

SHARES  ISSUED  INSIDE  OF  FIVE  YEARS  IN  THE  UnITED 

States  will  not  be  less  than  fifty  billion. 
This,  on  the  five-million-dollar  representative  basis 
would  give  a  National  Board  of  Directors  amounting 
to  ten  thousand  members  in  the  United  States,  less 
ten  per  cent,  (or  one  thousand),  who  would  be  elected 
to  and  represent  the  United  States  in  the  "World 
Corporate  Congress." 

All  Representatives  of  "World  Corporation" 
would  be  active  workers  either  on  Boards  of  Finance 
Committees  or  as  appointees  in  the  management  of 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  41 

railrofids  and  industrial  plants  that  had  come  under 
control  of  "World  Corporation,"  or  be  actively 
engaged  in  the  consolidation  and  rearrangement  of 
the  World's  Industrial  Plant  and  Machinery. 

These  ten  thousand  men  and  women  would  rep- 
resent the  most  advanced  and  progressive  intelligence 
in  the  United  States,  and,  combined  with  other 
Nations  in  the  "World  Corporate  Congress," 
would  represent  the  advanced  Industrial  and  Finan- 
cial Talent  of  the  World. 


SYNOPSIS 

OF 

"WORLD   CORPORATION." 

*' World  Corporation'*  is  the  birth  of  industrial 
science  destined  to  combine  Education,  Industry, 
and  Government  throughout  the  world  in  one 
system,  bringing  all   nations   and   all   peoples   into 

ONE   CORPORATE   BODY,    POSSESSING    ONE    CORPORATE 
MIND. 

"World  Corporation"  will  not  recognize  any 
division  of  the  earth's  surface  into  nations  or  di- 
vision of  its  peoples  into  nationalities,  nor  any 
divided  ownership  in  the  world's  industrial  ma- 
chinery. 

"World  Corporation"  will  displace  all  govern- 
ments. Nations  will  be  helpless  in  its  grasp.  Ab- 
sorbing, controlling,  and  eventually  directing  in- 
dustrial life,  it  will  tear  down  the  barriers  of  caste 

[42] 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  43 


and  nationality  and  combine  in  one  brotherhood  all 
the  people  of  the  earth  for  one  common  purpose. 

"WoKLD  Corporation"  is  a  system  under  which 
the  world's  people  unite  and  co-operate,  to  tear 
down  a  system  under  which  they  are  divided  and 
at  war  with  each  other,  and  struggling  for  individual 
existence. 

"World  Corporation"  invites  the  participa- 
tion of  every  individual  in  the  world,  regardless  of 
nationality,    race,    creed,    color,    age,    or    sex.     It 

RECOGNIZES     DOLLARS,     NOT     INDIVIDUALS. 

"World  Corporation"  is  a  business  proposi- 
tion carried  forward  on  business  principles,  without 
sentiment,  without  weakness,  and  with  no  departing 
from  its  purposes, — no  compromise  with  govern- 
ments, with  corporations  or  individuals.  It  will 
move  steadily  onward,  without  fear,  without  favor, 
— the  embodiment  of  Economic  Law. 

"World   Corporation"  is  forwarded  by  those 
who  believe  it  has  the  power  to  accomplish  resalts. 


44  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

which  no  system  in  the  world  has  yet  made  pos- 
sible, these  results  being  the  organization  of  so- 
ciety and  industry  in  accord  with  Economic  Law, 
thereby  eliminating  the  evils  incident  to  a  competi- 
tive system. 

"World  Corporation"  will  not  ignore  estab- 
lished rights  and  arbitrarily  confiscate  property 
belonging  to  individuals.  It  will  attain  control  by 
natural  absorption,  conversion,  and  growth.  It 
means  the  conversion  of  individual  right  to  a  divided 
interest  in  the  world's  property,  into  an  undivided 
interest  in  property  corp orated  on  a  basis  of  equity, 
by  consent  of  the  individual.  It  is  co-operation  by 
individuals  who  believe  in  "World  Corporation." 

"World  Corporation"  will  not  complicate  its 
work  with  the  task  of  bringing  together  the  scat- 
tered competitive  parts  of  special  industries.  It 
will  leave  that  task  to  individual  promoters  and  con- 
tent itself  with  the  absorption  of  approved  listed 
Dividend-Paying  Securities  in  all  civilized  coun- 
tries, which  in  the  aggregate  amount  to  upwards  of 
one  hundred  billions  of  dollars,  and  includes  practi- 


«<n/, 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  45 

cally  all  the  marine  and  land  transportation  systems 
and  leading  manufacturing  industries  of  the  world. 
It  will  be  time  enough  to  consider  ways  and  means 
for  absorption  of  unlisted  industry,  when  approved 
listed  securities  have  been  absorbed  and  made  a 
permanent  asset  of  "World  Corporation." 

"World  Corporation"  will  assume  the  man- 
agement and  direct  the  policy  of  all  corporations 
which  come  under  its  control,  by  reason  of  hav- 
ing purchased  a  controlling  interest  in  their  voting 
securities. 

"World  Corporation"  represents  individual 
intelligence  and  force  combined,  centralized  and  in- 
telligently directed.  Individuals  are  OF  the  cor- 
porate mind,  but  are  not  THE  corporate  mind. 

"World  Corporation"  will  possess  all  knowl- 
edge of  all  men,  and  each  individual  mind  will  find 
complete  expression  through  the  great  Corporate 
Mind. 

"World  Corporation"  will  have  life  everlast- 
ing.    Individual  man  will  live  his  life  and  pass  into 


46  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 


the  great  beyond;  but  this  great  Corporate  Mind 
will  live  on  through  the  ages,  always  absorbing  and 
perfecting,  for  the  utilization  and  benefit  of  all  the 
inhabitants  of  the  earth. 

"World  Corporation"  is  a  storehouse  of 
Knowledge,  Industrial  Wealth  and  Power, 
constantly  increasing,  never  diminishing. 

"World  Corporation"  will  be  recognized  in 
history  as  the  dividing  line  between  Industrial 
Chaos  and  Industrial  Science. 


"World  Corporation"  Shares  are  all  Common 
Shares  and  sold  for  One  Dollar  per  share  in  the  money 
of  the  United  States,  or  its  equivalent  in  the  money 
of  any  other  nation. 

"World  Corporation"  recognizes  the  Dollar, 
or  its  equivalent,  in  issuing  shares,  not  the  individual 
who  tenders  it  or  the  nation  from  which  it  comes. 

"World  Corporation"  shares  are  issued  at 
par,  upon  demand,  without  limit,  to  all  appli- 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  47 

CANTS.     Therefore  shares  can  never  rise  above 

PAR  in  the  speculative  MARKET;  AND,  AS  PROVISION 
IS  MADE  FOR  REDEMPTION  OF  ALL  SHARES  AT  PAR, 
SHARES  CAN  NEVER  FALL  BELOW  PAR.  ThUS  SHARES 
WILL  BE  A  FIXED  UNIT  OF  VALUE. 

"World  Corporation"  Shares  are  only  issued 
for  cash.  Each  dollar  paid  for  a  share  either  re- 
mains in  the  treasury  of  the  Corporation  or  is  used 
for  the  purchase  of  approved  Dividend -Paying 
Securities,  which  are  removed  forever  from  the 
speculative  markets  of  the  world.  Thus,  Divi- 
dend-Paying Securities  of  thousands  of  cor- 
porations coming  from  every  nation  in  the  world 
will  be  converted  into  One  Dividend-Paying 
Security. 

'* World  Corporation"  Capital  is  progressive 
AND  WITHOUT  LiMiT.  The  actual  number  of  dol- 
lars that  have  been  paid  for  shares  issued,  less 
the  number  of  dollars  returned  to  stockholders 
for  shares  returned  and  cancelled,  represents  the 
actual  capitalization  of  the  Corporation  at  any 
time. 


48  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

"World  Corporation"  Shares  will  be  sold 
through  established  offices  of  the  Corporation  lo- 
cated in  every  large  city  and  town  of  every  nation. 

"World  Corporation"  makes  possible  the  safe 
investment  of  the  savings  of  the  people,  by  investing 
their  funds  in  thousands  of  money-earning  enter- 
prises, instead  of  the  individual  investing  his  small 
means  in  but  one  enterprise,  with  a  consequent 
enormously  increased  liability  of  loss.  "World 
Corporation"  is  simply  co-operative  investment 
for  mutual  safety  and  profit. 

"World  Corporation"  makes  the  absorption 
of  industry  so  simple,  and  confines  the  path  of  opera- 
tion within  such  narrow  and  rigid  lines,  that  the  in- 
vestment of  the  individual  inexperienced  in  business 
affairs  is  as  safe  as  that  of  the  most  experienced. 

"World  Corporation"  is  not  speculative. 
Every  dollar  received  from  shareholders  will  be 
used  for  legitimate  investments  in  approved  Divi- 
dend-Paying Securities.  No  money  will  be  loaned 
or  used  to  promote  individual  enterprises. 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  49 

"World  Corporation"  Shares  will  be  the  safest 
investment  for  Banks  and  Trust  Companies,  as  well 
as  individuals,  and  they  will  return  larger  dividends 
than  can  be  secured  by  any  other  investment. 

"World  Corporation"  is  organized  under  the 
same  laws  and  rights  as  are  conferred  upon  any 
Holding  Corporation  by  Charter,  which  gives  the 
right  to  individuals  to  combine  their  capital  for  the 
purpose  of  purchasing  the  securities  of  other  cor- 
porations. The  only  difference  between  an  indi- 
vidual Holding  Corporation  and  "World  Cor- 
poration" being  the  basis  of  equity  secured  to 
each  subscriber  to  shares  of  "World  Corpora- 
tion," on  account  of  their  progressive  and  unlimited 
issue  and  fixed  par  value. 

"World  Corporation,"  avhen  its  purpose  is 
fulfilled,  will  be  the  only  employer  of  labor 

AND  THE  ONLY  SELLER  OF  PRODUCTS,  and  the  CUStO- 

dian  of  individual  wealth,  represented  by  dollars, 
or  their  equivalent  in  units  of  labor.  Thus  "World 
Corporation"  will  be  the  world's  clearing-house, 
giving   to   each    individual    opportunity    to    labor. 


50  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

payment  for  his  labor,  and  sell  all  products  on  a 
basis  of  equity. 

"World  Corporation"  Shares  are  a  neces- 
sary FACTOR  IN  the  CONVERSION  OF  ALL  SECURI- 
TIES INTO  ONE  SECURITY,  AND  IN  THE  CONVERSION 
OF     INDIVIDUAL     PROPERTY     RIGHT     TO       CORPORATE 

PROPERTY  RIGHT.  When  all  property  is  absorbed, 
and  represented  by  outstanding  "World  Corpo- 
ration" Shares,  then  will  dividends  cease  and  a 
sinking  fund  be  provided,  for  purpose  of  absorbing 
and  cancelling  all  shares.  Thus  we  will  arrive  at 
the  true  system,  when  all  will  be  born  free  and  equal, 

and  THE  EQUITABLE  RELATION  OF  EACH  INDIVIDUAL 
TO  EVERY  OTHER  INDIVIDUAL,  SOCIALLY  AND  INDUS- 
TRIALLY, WILL  BE  BASED  ON  INTELLIGENCE. 


PUBLICITY. 

Publicity  will  be  a  permanent  feature  of  "World 
Corporation,"  and  to  this  end  a  weekly  paper 
will  be  published,  to  be  known  as  "World  Cor- 
poration News,"  containing  a  summary  of  the 
finances  of  the  Corporation  each  week  and  a  list 
of  the  securities  purchased.  At  the  close  of  each 
quarterly  period  a  complete  list  of  all  the  assets  of 
the  Corporation  will  be  published,  showing  the 
aggregate  amount  of  each  separate  security  owned 
by  the  Corporation  and  its  general  average  cost. 

"World  Corporation  News"  will  also  publish 
articles  giving  information  of  interest  to  stock- 
holders, pertaining  to  the  development  and  progress 
of  the  Corporation,  as  well  as  articles  contributed 
by  writers  who  have  suggestions  or  criticisms  to 
offer. 

"World  Corporation  News"  will  be  the  prop- 
erty of  "World  Corporation,"  and  its  aim  and 
purpose  will  be  to  give  the  widest  possible  publicity 

[51  ] 


52  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

to  every  act  of  the  Corporation.  Publication  will 
begin  as  soon  as  five  thousand  (5,000)  subscrip- 
tions have  been  received.  All  subscriptions  will  be 
credited  to  the  Publicity  Department  and  be  sep- 
arate and  distinct  from  all  subscriptions  for  purchase 
of  shares.  The  subscription  price  to  "World  Cor- 
poration News"  is  $2.00  per  year. 

PUBLICITY   AND    CO-OPERATION. 

To  the  Public. 

After  twenty  years  of  study,  the  author  presents 
to  the  public  his  complete  system  of  "World  Cor- 
poration," together  with  the  Charter  necessary  to 
its  operation,  and  has  opened  the  first  office  of  the 
Corporation  at  No.  6  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Mass. 

"World  Corporation"  is  impersonal  in  every 
way,  and  the  author  takes  to  himself  no  credit,  nor 
does  he  look  for  reward  or  profit  other  than  will 
come  to  every  individual  should  the  system  receive 
the  support  it  deserves,  and  for  such  service  as  he 
can  render  in  the  future  he  desires  no  recompense. 

There  are  thousands  of  individuals  who  are  able 
to  do  much  more  than  the  author, — men  and  women 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  53 

of  such  prominence  that  they  could  carry  the  whole 
country  with  them,  if  they  would  lend  their  names 
and  influence  and  give  their  approval  to  "World 
Corporation."     If  Theodore  Roosevelt  would  ac- 
cept  the   presidency   of    "World    Corporation," 
not  only  could  he  carry  the  people  of  America  with 
him,  but  he  would  carry  conviction  to  every  mind 
and    amalgamate   the   people   of   every   nation.     I 
will  make  the  offer  here,  to  be  one  of  twenty  indi- 
viduals, each  of  whom  shall  pay  to  Theodore  Roose- 
velt fifty  thousand  dollars  in  advance,  a  total  of 
one  million  dollars,  if  he  will  accept  the  presidency 
of  "World  Corporation"  over  a  period  of  four 
years,  it  being  understood  that  this  money  is  not  to 
be  a  charge  against  the  Corporation  in  any  way,  or 
ever  be  returned  to  the  subscribers.     I  make  this 
offer,   feeling  that   the  position   would   carry   with 
it  greater  honor  than  to  be  President,  King,  or  Em- 
peror of  any  nation  in  the  world. 


POLITICS. 

Politics  which  we  recognize  as  a  necessary  gov- 
ernmental part  of  our  competitive,  industrial 
system,  will  have  no  place  under  "World  Cor- 
poration." Governments  as  a  factor  of  national 
life  will  find  their  complement  in  "World  Cor- 
poration" National  Boards  of  Control,  and  in  the 
"World  Corporate  Congress."  Thus  will  the 
whole  field  of  World,  National,  State,  and  Muni- 
cipal Governments  pass  out  of  existence.  There 
will  be  no  voting,  no  political  campaigns,  and  no 
favorites  of  fortune,  either  socially  or  industrially, 
except  those  who  by  study,  application,  persever- 
ance, intelligence,  and  ability  earn  and  by  right 
attain  positions  in  the  World  Corporate  System. 

While  it  is  true  that  politics  will  have  no  place 
under  "World  Corporation"  in  its  ultimate 
form,  still  the  concrete  idea  underlying  "World 
Corporation" — i.e.,  the  dissolving  of  all  conflict- 
ing elements  of  our  competitive  system  into  cor- 

[54] 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  55 

porate  solution — might  be  taken  as  a  basis  for  the 
birth  of  a  new  political  party  out  of  the  chaos  of 
Industrial  conditions  now  agitating  the  people  of 
all  countries.  Though  separate  and  distinct  from 
"World  Corporation,"  a  political  party  would 
be  of  immense  service  in  forwarding  its  purposes. 

Such  a  party,  though  national  in  each  individual 
country  and  largely  devoted  to  national  affairs, 
would  be  international  in  its  scope  and  purpose, 
and  amalgamate  into  a  world-wide  working  force 
the  progressive  and  discontented  elements  of  all 
parties  of  all  nations.  Thus  would  the  reform  and 
progressive  parties  of  America,  England,  France, 
Germany,  and  all  other  countries  find  a  basis  for 
co-operative  effort  and  community  of  purpose. 

CORPORATE    PARTY. 

There  is  no  name  that  means  so  much  and  is  so 
applicable  to  present  industrial  conditions  and  the 
tendency  of  industry  to  centralize  by  "Economic 
Gravitation  "  as  "  Corporate  Party."  It  is  a  name 
that  suggests  a  definite  purpose,  a  definite  line  of 
action,  and  a  predetermined   goal.     It  is  a    name 


56  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

under  which  all  progressive  individuals  in  the  world 
can  rally,  irrespective  of  nationality  or  previous 
party  affiliation,  for  it  embodies  within  its  meaning 
that  for  which  all  nations  and  all  people  have  been 
striving  since  the  dawn  of  history, — a  system  of 

GOVERNMENT  AND   INDUSTRY   BASED    ON   EQUITY.      It 

means,  as  a  definite  goal,  Corporation  of  Property, 
Wealth,  Power,  Education,  Industry,  Governments, 
Nations,  Continents,  the  World,  into  the  hands  of 
the  People  of  the  World. 

Such  a  Corporate  Party,  brought  into  temporary 
existence  for  the  purpose  of  facilitating  the  rapid 
acquisition  of  industry  by  the  people  and  to  sup- 
plement the  work  of  "World  Corporation," 
could  do  much  in  Washington  in  opposing  legisla- 
tion designed  to  obstruct  and  retard  the  efforts 
of  the  people,  and  much  in  opposition  to  special 
legislation  designed  to  protect  and  forward  the  in- 
terests of  individual  corporations  and  trusts. 


Btdaration  of  ^rinciple0 
of  Corporate  ^artp 


I  AM  A  CORPORATIONIST 

I  BELIEVE  in  "World  Corporation" 
By  the  People — For  the  People,  as 
opposed  to  corporation  by  Individuals 
for  Individuals. 

I  BELIEVE  in  International  Co-operation 
with  all  Nations,  and  all  Nations  with 
each  other,  for  the  accomplishment 
of  Universal  Peace  through  "World 
Corporation." 

I  BELIEVE  in  the  corporate  acquisition 
and  final  ownership  of  all  property 
and  control  of  all  industry  by  the 
people. 

I  BELIEVE  in  the  elimination  of  lines  of 
demarkation  between  nations  and  peo- 
ple, and  the  establishment  of  equity 
between  individuals  throughout  the 
world  on  a  basis  of  intelligence. 


LAUNCHING  OF  "WORLD  CORPORATION." 

The  launching  of  ** World  Corporation"  in- 
volves no  departure  from  advanced  business 
methods.  Unlike  changes  brought  about  by  legis- 
lation, which  involve  long  periods  of  education  of 
the  people  before  a  step  in  advance  can  be  made, 
"World  Corporation"  will  be  forwarded  at 
once  by  a  few  individuals  as  a  nucleus,  and 
each  additional  individual  converted  to  its 
purpose  will  add  immediate  strength  to  the 
organization. 

The  first  and  most  important  matter  is  to  con- 
vince the  public  that  "World  Corporation" 
shares  are  safe,  and,  in  the  event  of  industrial  dis- 
turbance, the  safest  security  in  the  world.  This 
should  not  be  difficult  when  it  is  understood  that 
every  dollar  paid  for  shares  will  be  invested  in 
Dividend-Paying  Stocks  and  Bonds  of  active 
corporations  which  have  been  approved  by  a 
National  Board  of  Finance. 

[58] 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  59 

After  careful  consideration  of  information  in 
regard  to  different  securities  and  circumstances 
that  might  affect  their  vahie,  such  will  be  selected 
as  are  safest  from  every  point  of  view,  and  purchase 
will  be  made  in  the  open  market  on  the  stock  ex- 
changes of  the  world. 

Banking,  Insurance,  and  Trust  Companies  are 
making  such  purchases  for  investment  of  surplus 
funds  every  day.  And  Trust  Companies,  attorneys, 
and  individuals,  acting  as  trustees  for  others,  are 
thus  investing  moneys  of  individual  estates  for 
widows,  orphans,  and  others.  In  these  cases  money 
is  invested  upon  the  judgment  of  a  few  individuals 
at  most;  and  it  is  not  always  true  that  a  sufficient 
investigation  is  made,  or  knowledge  of  proposed 
investment  acquired  before  securities  are  purchased, 
nor  can  the  honesty  of  such  trustees  be  always  de- 
pended upon,  the  result  being  frequent  losses  of 
capital,  in  part  or  in  whole,  by  innocent  investors. 
Trust  Companies  assume  no  responsibilities  for 
investments  made,  and  the  cost  of  handling  money 
by  Trustees  and  by  Trust  Companies  is  excessive, 
seldom  falling  below  ten  per  cent,  of  the  actual  in- 
come of  investors,  and  is  usually  more.     Trustees 


60  "WORLD  CORPORATION" 

are  in  business  to  make  money,  and  every  transac- 
tion necessary  to  the  care  of  money  in  their  charge 
is  made  an  item  of  expense  to   the   investor.     It 

IS    ADMITTEDLY    SAFE    AND    PROFITABLE     FOR    TrUST 

Companies  and  Trustees  to  purchase  approved 
Stocks,  Bonds,  and  Securities  with  trust  funds. 
It  will  be  equally  safe  if  these  trust  funds 
and  savings  of  the  people  are  invested  in 
"World    Corporation"    Shares,    whose    assets 

WILL  BE  these  SAME  DiVIDEND-PaYING  SECURITIES. 

"World  Corporation"  combines  all  the  good 
features  of  Trust  Companies  or  Trustees,  with  ad- 
ditional features  of  absolute  security,  safety,  and 
maximum  income,  at  the  least  possible  cost  of  con- 
ducting business,  the  cost  being  confined  to  neces- 
sary clerical  work  and  incidental  expenses,  all  other 
income  from  the  assets  of  the  corporation  going  to 
the  credit  of  shareholders,  being  paid  to  them  at 
intervals  in  the  form  of  Dividends  or  credited  to 
their   Share   Account   as   they   prefer.     Too   much 

STRESS  cannot  BE  LAID  ON  THE  ABSOLUTE  SECURITY 

OF  "World  Corporation"  Shares  as  an  in- 
vestment. No  SECURITY  in  THE  WORLD  CAN  COM- 
PARE   with    THEM    FOR    SAFETY,    NOT    EVEN    UnITED 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  61 

States  Government  Bonds.  Back  of  every  dol- 
lar ARE  active  Dividend-Paying  Securities,  rep- 
resenting INDUSTRIES  WHICH  MUST  LIVE,  GROW, 
AND  BE  A  PERMANENT  FACTOR  OF  OUR  INDUSTRIAL 
LIFE,    NO    MATTER    WHAT    SYSTEM    PREVAILS.      TheSC 

industries  are  the  world's  Railroads  and  Steamship 
companies  and  their  equipment,  Telephone,  Tel- 
egraph, and  Cable  companies,  the  world's  Manu- 
facturing Industries,  Mining  properties,  and  the 
great  Agricultural  acreage  of  the  earth;  for  "World 
Corporation"  will  absorb,  own,  and  control  the 
whole  field  of  raw  production.  Shares  founded  on 
these  industries  will  represent  the  real  wealth  and 
values    of   the   world.     They    cannot   fail,    they 

CANNOT  depreciate  IN  VALUE. 

We  now  come  to  some  peculiar  facts  in  regard 
to  "World  Corporation"  Shares.     First,  There 

BEING  NO  LIMIT  TO  INDIVIDUAL  INVESTMENT  OF 
DOLLARS  AND  NO  LIMIT  TO  ISSUE  OF  SHARES,  IT 
FOLLOWS  THAT  SHARES  WILL  NEVER  RISE  ABOVE  A 
DOLLAR  IN  VALUE.  ScCOnd,  ThERE  BEING  NO  BAR 
TO  THE  SURRENDER  OF  SHARES  TO  THE  CORPORATION 
FOR  CANCELLATION  AND  THE  WITHDRAWAL  OF  AN 
EQUAL  NUMBER  OF  DOLLARS,  IT  FOLLOWS  THAT  SHARES 


62  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

WILL  NEVER  FALL  BELOW  A  DOLLAR  IN  VALUE.   We 

thus  have  this  strange  fact  before  us, — a  currency 
("World  Corporation"  Shares)  absolutely  sta- 
ple IN  VALUE,  non-speculative  AND  NEVER  CHANG- 
ING, and  by  whose  value,  labor,  and  every  product  of 
the  world  will  be  determined  and  regulated,  includ- 
ing gold  and  silver,  which  will  fluctuate  in  value  in 
relation  thereto,  the  same  as  any  product. 

This  basis  of  permanent  exchange  value  peculiar 
to  "World  Corporation"  Shares  will  become  a 
fact  from  the  day  "World  Corporation"  has  its 
birth,  for  their  value  does  not  depend  upon  the  num- 
ber of  shares  issued,  and  within  a  few  years  these 

SHARES    will    BE    A    NATIONAL    AND    INTERNATIONAL 

Currency,  thereby  giving  to  the  world  for 
the  first  time  a  universal  exchange  medium 
founded  upon  Industry. 

Opposition  to  "World  Corporation"  by  in- 
dividuals, by  states,  or  by  governments  will  be 
of  no  avail.  Opposition  in  any  case  can  only  be  of 
temporary  effect,  barriers  will  only  centralize  power 
and  cause  increased  momentum  when  they  give 
way.  "World  Corporation"  may  start  slowly; 
but  the  billion  mark  will  soon  be  passed,  and  speed 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  63 

of  absorption  will  increase  in  compounding  ratio, 
until  it  spreads  like  a  prairie  fire,  through  every 
nation  of  the  world.  Holders  of  property  and  se- 
curities will  turn  them  into  money,  and  reinvest  in 
"World  Corporation"  Shares.     Thus  will  the 

PROCESS  OF  CONVERSION  CONTINUE,  AND  CORPORA- 
TION AFTER  Corporation  come  under  control, 
UNTIL  all  Industry  is  absorbed  in  one  Corpo- 
rate Body  under  one  Corporate  Intelligence, — 
"World  Corporation." 


"WORLD   CORPORATION"  REVOLU- 
TIONARY. 

"World  Corporation"  is  different  from  other 
corporations.  It  is  a  Corporation  of  the  people  and 
of  the  people's  wealth.  Its  capital  is  progres- 
sive AND  without  limit,  represented  at  all  times  by 
actual  dollars  paid  into  the  company's  treasury. 
Its  assets  are  approved  Dividend-Paying  Se- 
curities OF  OTHER  CORPORATIONS  purchased  in  the 
open  market  at  their  market  value.  Speculation 
feeds  on  floating  securities  and  their  rise  and  fall 
in  value.  When  these  securities  are  pur- 
chased BY  "World  Corporation,"  they  will 
never  again  be  sold  or  find  their  way  into  the 
SPECULATIVE  MARKETS  OF  THE  WORLD.  Corpora- 
tion after  corporation  will  come  under  control,  and 
the  people  will  come  into  ownership  of  every  rail- 
road in  North  America,  without  recourse  to  law  or 
legislation,  and  into  possession  of  all  manufacturing 
industries  without  friction  or  disturbance.     "World 

[64] 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  65 

Corporation"  is  a  business  plan  of  absorption 
BY  CONVERSION, — a  simple  means  of  transferring 
the  world's  wealth  from  individual  control  to  owner- 
ship and  control  by  the  people. 

"World  Corporation"  is  independent  of  all 
other  corporations  and  of  all  individuals  or  nations, 
and  its  success  is  not  dependent  on  the  time  in  which 
any  number  of  shares  shall  be  issued.  If  a  thousand 
individuals  should  each  pay  in  one  thousand  dol- 
lars, they  would  have  paid  in  a  total  of  one  million 
dollars,  and  there  would  be  issued  to  each,  one 
thousand  shares  at  their  par  value,  or  a  total  of 
one  million  shares.  The  total  dividends  from  the 
securities  purchased  with  this  million  dollars  would 
represent  the  total  earnings  of  their  million-dollar 
investment,  the  purpose  of  their  co-operative  in- 
vestment being  to  make  security  doubly  secure  by 
spreading  the  investment  over  hundreds  of  securi- 
ties, instead  of  each  individual  purchasing  one 
security.  It  is  simply  co-operative  investment  for 
mutual   benefit   and   safety. 

What  is  true  of  co-operative  investment  as  shown 
in  the  above  million-dollar  corporation  is  true  to 
a  much  greater  degree  of  "World  Corporation," 


66  "WORLD  CORPORATION" 

which  will  invite  the  co-operation  of  every  individ- 
ual in  the  world,  and  should  issue  fifty  billion  shares 
at  one  dollar  each,  inside  of  two  years,  which  will 
represent  the  purchase  and  pooling  of  Dividend- 
Paying  Securities  of  thousands  of  corporations. 
If  these  fifty  billion  shares  were  sold  in  approximate 
equal  amounts  to  investors  in  the  United  States, 
England,  France,  Germany,  Russia,  Japan,  China, 
and  India,  the  financial  interest  of  these  Nations 
in  each  other  would  make  war  impossible,  dis- 
armament of  Nations  would  quickly  follow,  and 
armies  of  destruction  would  be  rapidly  absorbed 
into  armies  of  construction. 

"World  Corporation"  will  do  more  than  turn 
armies  of  war  into  armies  of  peace;  it  will  turn 
the  army  of  speculators  into  avenues  of  produc- 
tion; and,  as  it  gradually  absorbs  one  industry 
after  another,  it  will  displace  all  middle-men,  wipe 
out  the  insurance  system  and  all  tributary  indus- 
tries of  our  competitive  system,  and  so  centralize 
control  of  property  in  "World  Corporation" 
that  laws  against  individual  property  right  will 
become  null  and  void. 

Let  us  consider  further  the  possible  rapid  growth 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  67 

of  "World  Corporation."  If  stocks  and  bonds 
listed  upon  the  exchanges  of  the  world  are  worth 
their  quoted  values  as  an  investment  for  banks, 
Trust  Companies,  and  individuals,  they  are  just  as 
valuable  to  "World  Corporation,"  whose  Board 
of  Finance  will  first  pass  upon  securities  purchased. 
Under  these  conditions  "World  Corporation" 
Shares  will  be  safest  of  any  security  in  the  world; 
and,  no  matter  how  you  may  have  money  invested, 
"World  Corporation"  Shares  will  be  better  and 
safer.  You  might  to-day  sell  on  the  stock  exchange 
Securities  which  you  hold  and  the  purchaser  be 
"World  Corporation."  With  money  received 
you  could  purchase  "World  Corporation"  Shares. 
To-morrow  the  money  you  paid  for  "World  Cor- 
poration" Shares  might  be  paid  out  by  "World 
Corporation"  for  Securities,  sold  by  some  other 
individual  who  wishes  to  convert  his  Securities  into 
money,  with  which  to  purchase  "World  Corpora- 
tion "  Shares.  Thus  would  this  process  of  conver- 
sion continue,  until  one  corporation  after  another 
had  been  completely  absorbed  and  its  Securities 
removed  forever  from  the  speculative  field. 


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''WORLD   CORPORATION''  69 

On  looking  at  foregoing  table  we  find  that 
"World  Corporation"  has  in  its  treasury  $5,000 
worth  of  good  Dividend-Paying  Securities,  formerly 
owned  by  Davis,  Howard,  Rice,  Smith,  and 
Appleton,  and  has  issued  1,000  shares  of  "World 
Corporation"  each  to  Allen,  Davis,  Howard, 
Rice,  and  Smith.  We  find  that  these  securities, 
Pennsylvania,  Northern  Pacific,  Rock  Island, 
United  States  Steel,  and  Telephone  and  Telegraph, 
amounting  in  value  to  $1,000  each,  have  been  re- 
moved from  the  speculative  market  forever,  and 
have  been  converted  into  5,000  shares  of  "World 
Corporation." 

Nothing  has  been  lost  or  gained  in  these  trans- 
actions  from    a    money    standpoint;     but,    where 

FIVE  speculative  SECURITIES  WERE  ON  THE  ]VL\RKET 
BEFORE,  THERE  IS  NOW  ONLY  ONE  SECURITY  WHICH 
IS  ABSOLUTELY  FIXED  IN  VALUE  AND  NON-SPECU- 
LATIVE. 

SIMPLICITY  OF  CONVERSION  BY  "WORLD 
CORPORATION." 

It  would  be  impossible  for  the  people  to  attain 
control  of  industry  throughout  the  world  by  direct 


70  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

purchase  through  government.  Such  a  process 
would  entail  endless  confusion,  and  result  in  fraud- 
ulent transactions  by  promoters  and  manipulators 
behind  the  scenes,  that  would  work  disaster  if  not 
ruin.  To  attain  control  through  legislation  is  al- 
most as  hopeless,  and  no  individual  now  living  would 
see  its  fruition.  On  the  other  hand,  we  have  the 
process  of  conversion  by  absorption  through  the 
formation  of  "World  Corporation"  which  is 
perfectly  simple,  requires  no  special  legisla- 
tion OR  APPEAL  TO  POLITICAL  PARTIES,  AVOIDS  THE 
CONFUSION  OF  DIRECT  PURCHASE,  FRAUD  ON  PART  OF 
PROMOTERS,  PROVIDES  A  MEANS  WHEREBY  ALL  IN- 
DUSTRIES MAY  BE  ABSORBED  WITHOUT  CONFUSION 
AND  WITHOUT  HARDSHIP,  AND  ASSURES  HUMANITY, 
OWNERSHIP  OF  ALL  THE  MATERIAL  ASSETS  OF  THE 
WORLD  WITHIN  THE  LIFETIME  OF  FULLY  FIFTY  PER 
CENT.    OF    THE    PEOPLE    NOW    LIVING. 

In  carrying  out  this  process  of  absorption  you 
have  before  you  two  pictures:  one  is  a  picture  of 
the  assets  of  the  world  divided  and  owned  indi- 
vidually BY  FOUR  BILLION  PEOPLE;  in  the  other 
picture  you  see  the  same  assets  of  the  world 

GRADUALLY    BEING    ABSORBED     INTO     ONE     CORPORA- 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  71 

TION      BY     CONSENT     AND     CO-OPERATION     OF     THESE 
SAME   PEOPLE. 

"World  Corporation"  is  the  great  industrial 
absorber  of  the  world.  How  rapidly  it  will  pro- 
gress can  only  be  determined  by  experience;  but, 
if  "World  Corporation"  secures  the  co-opera- 
tion of  the  people,  fifty  billion  shares  issued  in  two 
years  throughout  the  world  will  fall  far  short  of 
actual  amount,  for  the  wage-earner  alone  can  do 
much  toward  this  result  by  withdrawing  his  savings 
from  the  banks  and  investing  in  "World  Cor- 
poration." Instead  of  contributing  money  to 
banks  to  be  used  for  his  undoing,  he  would  be  the 
actual  owner  of  industrial  securities  that  would 
bring  him  in  a  larger  income  on  his  investment, 
give  him  greater  security,  give  him  voice  and  man- 
agement in  the  world's  industries,  and  eventually 
give  to  the  people  of  the  world  ownership  and  con- 
trol of  industry.  As  for  the  capitalist,  fortunate 
will  he  be  who  reads  the  writing  on  the  wall  and 
takes  heed  before  the  tide  begins  to  turn. 


PART   TWO 


THE   AUTOMATIC   LABOR 

SYSTEM 


SOWING  THE   SEED. 


Economic  Law  as  a  "Principle"  is  the 
"Universal  Law"  of  Creative  Development 
and  Intellectual  and  Material  Progress.  As 
a  fundamental,  it  applies  to  Atoms,  Worlds, 
Systems,  Animate  and  Inanimate  Nature,  and 
all  that  is  and  may  be. 

"Corporation"  as  now  being  applied  to 
the  Industrial  System  is  the  beginning  of  the 
adaptation  of  this  same  Universal  Economic 
Law  to  Humanity's  needs,  and  as  such  it 
must  be  recognized  and  accepted  by  man  as 
a  principle  of  life,  and  fundamental  as  a  guide 
to  Spiritual,  Intellectual,  Moral,  and  Material 
Progression.  The  day  is  near  at  hand  when 
"Corporation"  will  be  the  battle-cry  from 
pole  to  pole  and  around  the  whole  circum- 
ference of  the  earth,  and  under  its  banner 
will  march  shoulder  to  shoulder  the  people 
of  every  nation. 

These  living  seeds  of  truth  scattered 
broadcast  in  the  soil  of  modem  intelligence 
will  take  root  and  blossom,  and  the  fruit 
thereof  will  be  deeds  and  actions,  and  the 
glorious  dawn  of  an  earthly  millennium. 


^V  O  R  L  D 
CORPORATION." 


AUTOMATIC  LABOR  SYSTEM. 

The  "Automatic  Labor  System"  of  "World 
Corporation  "  solves  the  industrial  problem  for  all 
future  time.  There  can  be  no  other  answer  than 
the  one  here  presented.  There  is  no  fork  to  the 
road.  It  is  straight  and  lies  plain  before  us,  and 
sooner  or  later  advanced  civilization  must  accept 
it.  This  Labor  System  displaces  competition  for 
wealth,  and  substitutes  attainment  of  knowledge 
as  a  basis  for  individual  position  and  advancement 
in  the  social  and  industrial  system  and  as  an  in- 
centive to  progress. 

The  discovery  of  this  "Automatic  Labor  Sys- 
tem,"   made    by   the    writer    while  tracing  causes 

[75] 


76  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

and  effects  in  our  industrial  system,  is  most  im- 
portant to  "World  Corporation,"  for  by  its 
adoption  it  is  possible  to  bind  together  every 
individual  in  the  world  in  perfect-working  har- 
mony in  one  "World  Corporate  System,"  and 
guarantee  to  each  equity,  justice,  and  freedom,  in 
his  relation  to  every  other  individual,  and  to  the 
Corporate  Directing  Intelligence.  Further,  this 
"Automatic  Labor  System"  will  maintain  at  all 
times  throughout  the  world,  in  every  department 
of  industry,  an  exact  balance  between  supply 

AND  demand  for  LABOR  AND  SUPPLY  AND  DEMAND 
FOR   PRODUCTS. 

This  System  is  attainable  without  the  enactment 
of  a  single  law,  and  without  appeal  to  legislation 
or  government;  and  neither  race,  nationality,  indi- 
vidual character,  nor  characteristics  of  disposition 
have  any  bearing  on  its  successful  operation.  The 
system  is  Economic  Law,  which  is  as  fixed  and  de- 
pendable for  man's  guidance,  and  as  inflexible  in 
resisting  artificial  barriers  as  is  the  law  of  Gravita- 
tion. It  does  not  adjust  itself  to  individuals;  indi- 
viduals must  adjust  themselves  to  the  Law. 

This    "Automatic    Labor    System"    will    be    a 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  77 

part  of  "World  Corporation."  The  only  ques- 
tion that  arises  is,  Shall  this  system  be  put  in 
operation  in  individual  corporations  as  rapidly  as 
such  corporations  come  under  control,  or  shall 
it  be  held  in  abeyance  until  "World  Corpora- 
tion" has  acquired  control  of  the  greater  part  of 
industry? 
The  "Automatic  Labor  System'*  involves  the 

ESTABLISHMENT  OF  A  LaBOR  BuREAU  AS  A  DEPART- 
MENT OF  "World  Corporation,"  this  department 
to  employ  all  labor  of  all  industries  brought  under 
its  control.  The  reader  will  understand  that 
"World  Corporation,"  as  an  employer  of  labor 
through  its  Labor  Bureau,  simply  takes  the  place 
of  present  employers  of  labor,  who  are  displaced 
whenever  individual  corporations  or  industries  are 
absorbed.  By  thus  bringing  labor  under  the  con- 
trol of  one  employer  the  "Automatic  Labor  Sys- 
tem" is  made  possible,  and  our  present  system  of 
chaos  will  be  gradually  merged  into  a  comprehen- 
sive system  of  order.  "World  Corporation" 
carries  to  a  logical  conclusion  the  results  attained 
by  individual  corporations,  which  absorb  numbers 
of    competitive    plants    of   industry,    thereby   cen- 


78  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

tralizing  many  employers  of  labor  into  one  em- 
ployer of  labor. 

Under  the  "Automatic  Labor  System"  indi- 
viduals desiring  employment  in  "World  Corpo- 
ration" will  go  to  the  Labor  Bureau  where,  upon 
application,  they  will  be  furnished  with  complete 
tabulated  lists  of  every  department  of  industry 
throughout  the  whole  world  industrial  system. 
These  lists  will  be  divided  into  Grand  Divisions 
such  as  Architecture,  Manufacturing,  Mechanical 
Engineering,  Electrical  Engineering,  Agriculture, 
Mining,  Fisheries,  Transportation,  Food  Prepara- 
tion, Landscape  Gardening,  etc.,  and  these  Grand 
Divisions  will  be  divided  into  sub-divisions,  and 
these  again  into  departments  and  sub-departments, 
until  each  department  in  the  whole  field  of  indus- 
try, from  the  highest  to  the  lowest  has  been  pro- 
vided for  and  properly  graded  and  listed. 

Each  of  these  graded  departments  throughout 
the  system  will  have  a  predetermined  entrance  re- 
quirement based  on  acquired  knowledge  or  skill, 
or  both,  and  no  department  can  be  entered  except 
the  requirement  of  that  department  is  fully  met 
by  the  applicant.    These  entrance  requirements 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  79 

will  be  worked  out  and  determined  by  a 
Special  Educational  and  Industrial  Bureau, 
constituting  a  part  of  the  "world  corporate 
Congress." 

It  will  be  noted  by  applicants  for  positions  in 
looking  over  the  lists,  that  an  amount  paid  per  hour, 
per  day,  or  per  month  for  labor  is  posted  in  figures, 
opposite  each  department.  These  figures  may  rep- 
resent dollars  or  units  of  labor.  The  name  makes 
no  difference.  It  will  be  further  noted  that  the 
amounts  paid  in  different  departments  widely  vary 
in  their  greatest  extremes.  These  variations  are  not 
the  result  of  arbitrary  laws  fixed  by  man  or  corpor- 
ate interference,  but  are  varying  automatic  amounts 
arrived  at  by  the  system  itself,  as  the  departments 
compete  with  each  other  for  labor  to  meet  the  de- 
mand for  products  in  each  department.  It  makes 
no  difference  how  wide  apart  the  amounts  paid  in 
different  departments  may  be,  the  labor  and  pay 
in  one  department  is  on  an  exact  equitable  basis 
with  the  labor  and  pay  in  every  other  department. 

Under  an  Industrial  System  there  are  two  great 
problems  to  meet, — Demand  for  Products  and  De- 
mand for  Labor.     In  order  to  balance  supply  and 


80  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

demand  for  labor,  so  that  each  department  of  in- 
dustry will  be  able  to  meet  the  demand  for  prod- 
ucts, and  at  the  same  time  equalize  the  amount  paid 
to  individuals  in  each  department  on  a  basis  of 
equity,  an  "Automatic  Labor  System"  has  been 
discovered  and  worked  out  which  meets  every  re- 
quirement. Under  this  system  each  department 
of  industry  is  placed  in  competition  with  every 
other  department  of  industry,  in  bidding  for  labor 
necessary  to  meet  the  demand  for  products  in  its 
department.  Thus  the  amounts  paid  in  the  thou- 
sands of  departments  of  industry  will  vary,  and  rise 
and  fall  automatically,  in  competition  with  each 
other  to  balance  supply  and  demand  in  each  de- 
partment, thereby  balancing  supply  and  demand 
throughout  the  whole  world  industrial  system.  The 
application  is  as  follows: — 

AUTOMATIC  LABOR  SYSTEM. 

If  a  department  of  industry  is  not  meeting 
the  demand  for  products,  and  is  in  need  of 
labor,  and  laborers  are  not  attracted,  but 
turn  to  other  departments  in  preference,  it 


''WORLD  CORPORATION'*  81 

will  show  that  the  amount  paid  in  that  de- 
partment is  not  on  a  basis  of  equity  in  compe- 
tition for  labor  with  other  departments. 
Therefore  the  amount  paid  in  that  department 

WILL  BE  increased  BY  SYSTEMATIC  PROGRESSION 
FROM  DAY  TO  DAY  BY  MARKING  UP  THE  LISTED  PRICE 
PAID,  UNTIL,  IN  COMPETITION  WITH  OTHER  DEPART- 
MENTS, IT  BECOMES  MORE  DESIRABLE,  LABORERS 
WILL  BE  ATTRACTED,  THE  DEMAND  WILL  BE  MET, 
AND     AN     EQUILIBRIUM     BE     ESTABLISHED.      On     the 

other  hand,  if  a  department  is  attracting  more 

APPLICANTS  FOR  LABOR  THAN  ARE  NEEDED,  OR  HAS 
MORE  LABORERS  THAN  REQUIRED  TO  MEET  THE  DE- 
MAND FOR  PRODUCTS,  IT  WILL  BE  EVIDENCE  THAT 
TOO  MUCH  IS  BEING  PAID  FOR  LABOR  IN  THAT  DE- 
PARTMENT, IN  COMPETITION  WITH  OTHER  DEPART- 
MENTS. In  ORDER  TO  OVERCOME  THIS  INEQUALITY 
AND  ESTABLISH  AN  EQUILIBRIUM  AND  PLACE  THE 
DEPARTMENT  ON  A  BASIS  OF  EQUITY  WITH  OTHER 
DEPARTMENTS,  THE  AMOUNT  PAID  WILL  BE  REDUCED 
FROM  DAY  TO  DAY,  SYSTEMATICALLY,  AND  THE 
CHANGE  LISTED,  UNTIL  THIS  DEPARTMENT  IN  COM- 
PETITION WITH  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS  BECOMES 
LESS      ATTRACTIVE,       APPLICANTS      WILL      TURN      TO 


82  "WORLD   CORPORATION'' 

OTHER  DEPARTMENTS  AND  AN  EQUILIBRIUM  BE 
ESTABLISHED. 

A  BALANCE  IN  THE  WHOLE  SYSTEM  WILL  BE 
FINALLY  ESTABLISHED  BY  FIRST  MEETING  THE 
FLUCTUATING  DEMAND  FOR  PRODUCTS  FOR  INDIVID- 
UAL CONSIBIPTION  AND  THE  USE  OF  ALL  SUPER- 
ABUNDANCE OF  LABOR  IN  PuBLIC  WoRKS  DEPART- 
MENTS. It  can  readily  be  seen  that  there  will  be  a 
fluctuating  demand  for  products  of  consumption  by- 
individuals,  and  a  consequent  fluctuating  demand 
for  labor  in  those  departments  devoted  to  meeting 
individual  demands,  necessitating  an  elastic  medium 
to  balance  the  system.  This  elastic  medium  will 
be  the  labor  employed  in  Public  Works,  which 
may  be  increased  or  diminished  by  increasing  or 
decreasing  the  amount  of  work  being  forwarded  in 
Public  Works  Departments,  or  by  increasing  or 
decreasing  the  amounts  paid  in  Public  Works  De- 
partments in  competition  with  departments  de- 
voted to  meeting  individual  demand  for  products. 

When  this  system  is  established  and  balanced, 
there  will  be  little  rise  and  fall  in  wages  and  little 
shifting  and  changing  about,  except  as  individuals 
advance  to  higher  grades  in  the  path  which  they 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  83 

have  chosen.  There  will  be  no  unemployed  ex- 
cept those  who  have  units  of  labor  to  their  credit 
with  the  Corporation  and  are  idle  from  choice. 
There  is  no  compulsion  brought  to  bear  on  the  in- 
dividual by  the  system  to  make  him  work.  But 
in  order  to  live  he  must  either  have  units  of  labor 
to  his  credit  with  the  Corporation,  or  must  work. 
Those  whose  wants  are  few  need  work  but  little, 
for  the  productive  power  of  the  individual  will  be 
enormous  under  "World  Corporation."  But 
whatever  his  wants  may  be,  he  must  balance  the  cost 
of  products  consumed,  by  his  labor  on  a  basis  of 
equity. 

Under  this  "Automatic  Labor  System"  every 
department  of  industry  v/ill  exactly  balance  supply 
of  labor  and  demand  for  products.  There  can  be 
NO  EXCEPTIONS.  Any  department,  no  matter  how 
dangerous,  obnoxious,  or  objectionable  the  work 
may  be,  can  always  be  made  to  attract  its  necessary 
amount  of  labor,  at  some  price,  in  competition  for 
labor   with   other   departments;    and   that    price 

WILL  be  AUTOMATICALLY  REACHED  AND  PAID  IN 
ORDER     TO     BALANCE     SUPPLY     AND     DEMAND.      It     is 

the  happy  medium  between  too  much  and  too  little 


84  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

compensation  in  each  department  which  maintains 
a  balance  throughout  the  system,  and  it  is  the  elastic 
use  of  labor  in  Public  Works  Departments  which 
balances  the  system  as  a  whole  and  solves  the  prob- 
lem of  the  unemployed  forever. 

THE    AUTOMATIC    SYSTEM    A   SCIENTIFIC    ADAP- 
TATION OF  OUR  PRESENT  SYSTEM. 

The  *' Automatic  Labor  System"  is  the  scien- 
tific adaptation  of  our  present  system.  There  is  not 
a  single  new  feature,  except  that  our  present  sys- 
tem results  in  chaos  and  waste,  while  Corporation 
establishes  order  and  economy.  If,  under  our  pres- 
ent system  of  competition,  an  industry  or  a  depart- 
ment of  industry  does  not  attract  labor  sufficient 
to  meet  requirements,  it  is  forced  to  raise  the  wages 
paid  and  keep  raising  them  until  in  competition 
with  other  departments  or  industries,  it  attracts 
labor.  In  such  a  case  Labor  holds  the  whip,  and 
strikes  or  arbitrates  to  force  their  wages  higher. 
If  business  is  slack  and  labor  over-abundant.  Capi- 
tal wields  the  whip  and  forces  wages  down,  and  they 
continue  to  go  down  until  they  can  be  forced  no 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  85 

lower.  The  difference  between  our  present  system 
and  "World  Corporation"  is,  that  under  our 

PRESENT  SYSTEM  INDUSTRY  IS  DIVIDED  INTO  MILL- 
IONS    OF     COMPETITIVE     PARTS     WITH     HUNDREDS    OF 

THOUSANDS  OF  EMPLOYERS  OF  LABOR,  and  there  is  no 
co-operation  between  these  parts  whereby  system 
can  be  maintained,  and  no  co-operation  between 
individual  employers  of  labor,  and  employers  of 
labor  for  Public  Works  Departments  of  National, 
State,  and  Municipal  Governments.  This  makes 
it  impossible  to  establish  an  equilibrium  between 
supply  and  demand  for  products  and  supply  and 
demand  for  labor.  As  a  result  the  system  is  chaotic, 
and  there  is  always  a  large,  fluctuating  population 
of  unemployed  that  cannot  be  taken  care  of.  Under 
"World  Corporation"  control  of  industry  is  cen- 
tralized, and  there  is  only  one  employer  of  labor, 
which  makes  it  possible  to  put  in  operation  the 
"Automatic  Labor  System,"  which  puts  every 

individual  IN  THE  WORLD  IN  THE  LABOR  CLASS,  ON 

A  BASIS  OF  EQUITY  AND  JUSTICE,  and  providcs  for 
the  employment  of  all  labor  by  the  fluctuating  use 
of  labor  in  Public  Works  Departments. 

Every  department  of  Industry  has  its  wages  listed 


86  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

by  the  Labor  Bureau  and  is  open  to  applicants  at 
all  times,  provided  they  meet  entrance  requirements. 
The  Corporation  itself  cannot  bar  individual 
entrance,  provided  the  predetermined  require- 
MENTS ARE  MET.  Therefore  every  individual  can 
enter  any  department  he  is  fitted  for,  is  free  to 
follow  his  path  of  inclination,  and  is  absolute  master 
of  his  own  destiny,  his  progress  being  limited  only 
by    his    ambition    and    intelligence.     Under    this 

SYSTEM   THERE   WILL   BE  NO   POLITICS,   UO   disturbing 

factors  to  create  friction  in  the  operation  of  the 
great  world  industrial  mechanism,  no  favorites  of 
fortune.  Each  individual  must  earn  whatever 
POSITION  he  occupies;  he  cannot  be  elected 
TO  A  position;  nor  will  there  be  any  power 
strong  enough  to  advance  him,  except  in 
accord  with  the  system  of  equity  established. 


INTELLIGENCE  THE  BASIS  OF  EMPLOYMENT. 

Under  the  "Automatic  Labor  System"  Intel- 
ligence must  be  a  condition  at  the  threshold 
of  every  door,  else  the  individual  who  has  attained 
knowledge  and  proficiency  by  application  and  study 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  87 

to  fit  himself  for  a  particular  department,  might 
find  it  crowded  with  the  unfit  and  incompetent. 
Such  overcrowding  would  reduce  the  amount  of 
wages  paid  in  that  department,  in  competition 
with  other  departments,  would  lower  the  standard 
of  skill  and  efficiency,  and,  as  a  consequence, 
lower  the  quality  of  product  produced.  With 
equal  opportunity  to  acquire  knowledge,  which  is 
the  fundamental  idea  of  the  system,  there  can  be 
no  excuse  for  those  who  fail  to  attain  an  enviable 
position  in  "World  Corporation."  Certainly  no 
individual  can  expect  to  enter  a  department  for 
which  he  is  not  fitted.  A  child  in  the  kinder- 
garten might  as  reasonably  demand  a  position  as 
professor  of  Greek  in  Harvard,  as  for  an  individ- 
ual to  demand  a  position  in  the  "World  Cor- 
porate Machine"  which  he  is  incapable  of  filling. 
An  individual  must  be  perfectly  fitted  into  the 
position  he  holds,  whether  it  be  low  or  high,  and 
intelligence  is  the  only  gauge  by  which  fitness  can 
be  measured.  By  following  this  rule,  an  industrial 
machine  of  highest  efficiency  will  be  secured.  It 
is  Civil  Service  rules  applied  to  a  World  System. 
During  the  early  development  of  the  "Automatic 


88  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

Labor  System"  employment  of  individuals  in  any 
department  of  industry  will  be  determined  by  ex- 
amination ;  but  when  the  system  has  been  established 
a  sufficient  time  to  give  individuals  a  life  record  with 
*' World  Corporation,"  then  position  and  promo- 
tion will  be  based  on  such  record,  and  examinations 
will  be  dispensed  with  entirely.  These  life  records, 
kept  by  the  Corporation,  will  give  the  intellectual 
and  industrial  progress  of  the  individual  and  the 
departments  through  which  he  has  passed. 

When  the  "Automatic  Labor  System"  is  in  full 
operation,  each  individual  will  begin  at  the  broad 
base  of  the  Industrial  Pyramid,  in  that  grand  divi- 
sion chosen  by  inclination,  and  gradually  rise  to 
higher  position  by  successive  steps  upward  on  basis 
of  intelligence  acquired,  passing  grade  after  grade, 
until  the  apex  of  the  Pyramid,  the  "World  Cor- 
porate Congress,"  is  attained. 

By  the  law  of  averages  it  will  be  found  that  in- 
dividuals capable  of  filling  positions  of  great  intel- 
ligence and  technical  skill  will  be  in  greatest  demand, 
and  there  will  be  fewer  and  fewer  who  can  meet  the 
predetermined  requirements  of  intelligence,  skill, 
and  genius  as  progress  is  made  upward  from  the 


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The  above  pjTamid  is  the  symbol  of  the  Educational  and  Industrial  progress  of 
the  individual.  The  horizontal  divisions  represent  the  different  planes  upward 
until  "World  Corporation  Congress"  is  attained,  whereas  the  divisions  of  the 
pyramid  from  base  to  apex  represent  the  Grand  Divisions  of  Industry — all  of  which 
finally  merge  into  the  "World  Corporate  Congress."  Under  this  system  the 
individual  is  free  to  choose  his  path  of  inclination,  and  his  progress  cannot  be 
barred. 


90  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

lower  grades.  Therefore,  the  lowest  wages  will  be 
paid  for  common  labor,  which  will  be  abundant  and 
easily  supplied,  and  from  this  point  wages  will  in- 
crease in  each  grade  upward  until  *' World  Cor- 
porate Congress"  is  attained.  In  other  words, 
the  intellectual  gradation  of  individuals  will  start 
from  a  broad  base  of  common  labor  and  limited 

KNOWLEDGE    OF    THE    YOUNGER    INDIVIDUALS    OF    THE 

Corporation,  and   gradually  rise   to   a   pyramidal 

point  of  MOST  ADVANCED  KNOWLEDGE  OF  THE  OLDER 

AND  MORE  MATURE  INTELLIGENCES,  the  pyramidal 
point  being  the  merging  of  all  the  great  Divisions 
of  Industry  and  all  branches  of  Knowledge  in  the 
great  directing  mind, — the  "World  Corporate 
Congress,"  which  like  every  other  department 
of  "World  Corporation,"  is  open  to  the  ambi- 
tion of  every  individual,  and  to  attain  which  re- 
quires supreme  knowledge  in  some  one  of  the  great 
Divisions  of  Industry. 

Under  "World  Corporation"  Knowledge  will 
BE  universal,  and  intelligence  and  gradation  in  the 
World  System  will  depend  on  age  and  experience, 
rather  than  chance  or  favorable  conditions  of  envi- 
ronment, as  is  the  case  now.     Therefore,  as  stated, 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  91 

the  young  men  and  women  will  do  the  actual 
labor  under  "World  Corporation,"  and  the  ad- 
vanced positions  will  be  occupied  by  the  more  ma- 
ture intelligences. 

INCENTIVE    TO    AMBITION. 

To  attain  and  become  a  unit  in  the  great  direct- 
ing mind  of  "World  Corporation"  will  be  the 
ambition  of  each  individual  life:  it  will  take  the 
PLACE  OF  EVERY  OTHER  AMBITION,  and  as  an  incen- 
tive to  progress  will  be  greater  than  our  present 
system  of  competition  for  wealth,  a  hundred  to  one. 
A  child  of  to-day  in  our  public  schools  passes  from 
class  to  class  on  a  basis  of  intelligence.  He  has  been 
taught  to  know  that  he  cannot  pass  from  one  class 
to  another  until  prepared  for  the  change,  and  you 
hear  no  complaint.  He  accepts  the  inevitable  and 
does  not  expect  to  rise  until  he  meets  the  conditions 
of  advancement.  So  will  children  be  taught  from 
birth  under  "World  Corporation."  They  will 
be  made  to  understand  that  Education,  Industry, 
and  Government  are  one  system, — Education  pre- 
paring for  Industry, — Industry  for  Government, — 


92  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

and  that  prepared  fitness  is  the  only  open  sesame 
to  advancement. 

*'  World  Corporation  "  is  the  same  as  our 
present  system  of  Education,  Industry,  and  Gov- 
ernment, except  that  our  present  system  of  com- 
petitive industry  has  no  scientific  base,  and  the 
three  great  divisions  are  not  co-ordinated  and  do 
not  work  in  harmony  with  each  other;  in  conse- 
quence of  which  there  is  a  break  between  the  di- 
visions that  results  in  confusion  and  entails  disas- 
trous consequences. 

"World  Corporation"  is  a  natural  system,  for 
it  is  in  perfect  accord  with  Economic  Law,  a  law 
unto  itself,  that  requires  no  laws  of  man  to  interpret 
it  or  keep  it  in  adjustment.  It  treats  every  individ- 
ual in  the  world  on  a  basis  of  equity.  It  says  to 
each:  "You  are  free  to  choose  your  field  of  labor 
and  your  path  of  inclination.  Every  department 
IS  open,  no  place  is  ever  full.    But  you  shall 

NOT  CROSS  THE  THRESHOLD  OF  ANY  DEPARTMENT 
UNTIL  YOU  CAN  MATCH  UP  YOUR  INTELLIGENCE 
WITH    THOSE   WHO    HAVE    ENTERED.'* 

"World  Corporation"  is  an  educational 
system  that  begins  at  the  cradle  and  never  ends. 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  93 

It  is  a  world-wide  University  of  Progress,  a 
path  ever  upward,  flooded  with  the  loiowledge 
of  those  who  have  gone  before,  and  is  wide,  free, 
and  open. 


MAN  CORPORATE. 

You  may  better  understand  "World  Corpora- 
tion" if  your  attention  is  directed  to  the  Corpo- 
rate Man  who  represents  the  incorporated  people 
of  the  earth, — upwards  of  four  biUion  human  be- 
ings. This  great  body  and  mind  and  soul  is  a 
highly  specialized  individuality  with  acute  and  won- 
derful perceptive  senses.  His  eyes  are  the  corpo- 
rate eyes  of  the  world,  and  he  sees  all  that  they  see 
that  is  worth  seeing;  he  hears  all  that  all  the  in- 
dividuals in  the  world  hear  that  is  worth  hearing; 
he  scents  all  that  all  the  individuals  in  the  world 
scent;  he  tastes  all  that  all  the  individuals  in  the 
world  taste;  he  feels  all  that  all  the  individuals  in 
the  world  feel.  It  could  not  be  otherwise,  for  all 
his  senses  are  the  combined  senses  of  all  the  indi- 
viduals in  the  world.  His  body  and  brain  combine 
four  billion  human  atoms  which  can  only  find  expres- 
sion through  his  highly  specialized  senses. 

[94] 


MAX  CORPORATE. 


He  absorbs,  enfolds,  encompasses,  and  makes  the  world  his  own.     He  will  do  more; 

HE    will  penetrate  THE    CONFINES   OF  SPACE,   AND   MAKE   IT   DELIVER    UP   ITS 
SECRETS  AND   POWER,   FOR    MiND,   THE  ChILD  OF  THE  GREAT   OvER- 

sorL  OF  Creation  is  Infinite  and  Eternal. 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  95 

Look  again  at  this  great  corporate  body  and  mind ! 
See  how  the  brain  reasons,  sifts,  examines,  weighs, 
and  discriminates  in  its  judgment,  which,  when 
given,  is  final;  for  it  is  the  judgment  of  the  highest 
speciaHzed  intelHgence  of  man.  See  those  enormous 
arms.  They  are  the  arms  and  muscles  of  the  world 
combined  in  one  great  corporate  body,  directed 
in  their  manual  labor  and  skill  by  the  wonderful 
corporate  brain.  Does  it  occur  to  you  how  nearly 
like  unto  yourself  is  this  great  anatomical  structure? 
Like  you  its  mind  comes  in  contact  with  nature  and 
nature's  laws  through  its  senses  of  perception.  Like 
you  it  reasons,  sifts,  analyzes,  and  discriminates 
and  accepts  or  rejects.  Like  you  its  mind  and  body 
is  made  up  of  billions  of  living  cells  which  live  their 
life  and  die  and  pass  away,  their  place  being  taken 
by  other  cells.  In  the  case  of  the  great  World  Cor- 
porate Body  and  Mind,  the  billions  of  living  cells 
are  the  billions  of  human  beings  that  inhabit  the 
earth,  who  live  their  allotted  time  and  die,  others 
being  born  to  take  their  place,  each  contributing 
its  intelligence  to  the  great  corporate  mind.  Thus 
does  the  whole  material  structure  of  the  great  cor- 
porate body  and  mind  change  every  few  years;  but 


96  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

the  knowledge,  memory,  accumulating  intelligence, 
and  soul  of  this  great  corporate  body,  which  con- 
stitutes its  individuality  and  life,  lives  on  and  on, 
until  the  world  grows  old  and  night  descends. 


PART   THREE 


THE   WASTE   OF   OUR 
SYSTEM 


"WORLD   CORPORATION" 
NOT   A   DREAM. 

Our  Industrial  System  is  joined  by  a 
sequence  of  links  with  an  eternal  past. 
Each  link  is  knowledge,  there  are  no  links 
missing,  and  each  step  in  the  future  must 
be  linked  with  this  endless  chain. 

It  is  impossible  to  imagine  a  new  Indus- 
trial System  different  from  the  one  we  have, 
except  it  is  based  on  present  knowledge  and 
grows  in  natural  sequence  out  of  the  old  sys- 
tem. The  great  mistake  of  many  enthusiasts 
and  writers  upon  economic  subjects  is  their 
tendency  to  break  away  from  the  base  of 
acquired  knowledge,  leap  across  an  inter- 
vening space  of  years,  and  plant  their  banner 
of  discovery  in  an  unknown  and  unknowable 
country.  To  picture  Utopia  at  the  end  of 
such  a  journey  is  pure  imagination,  and  of  no 
value  to  the  seeker  after  truth. 

"World  Corporation"  is  linked  with 
the  past,  is  forged  out  of  present  conditions,  is 
in  direct  sequence  with  industrial  gravitation 
and  "Economic  Law."  It  is  not  a  dream. 
It  is  reality. 


THE  PROBLEM. 

Mankind  has  been  seeking  a  solution  of  the  social 
and  industrial  problem  for  ages,  during  which  time 
thousands  of  governments  have  been  born,  have 
lived  their  brief  existence,  and  have  died.  Born  in 
poverty,  each  passed  through  its  period  of  youth- 
ful prosperity, — the  flower  of  middle  age, — and  at- 
tained a  position  of  wealth  and  aflfluence,  then  at  the 
pinnacle  of  its  power  and  greatness,  died; — died 
as  though  stricken  by  some  inherent  disease  that 
was  beyond  the  knowledge  of  man  to  cure.  *' His- 
tory repeats  itself"  seemed  to  be  the  only  answer 
to  account  for  this  succession  of  births  and  deaths 
of  nations.  Yet  this  was  not  conclusive  or  satis- 
fying, and  it  still  remained  with  many  a  problem  to 
be  solved.  Why  should  death  strike  like  a  thunder- 
bolt Nation  after  Nation,  System  after  System, 
Government  after  Government,  at  a  time  when  they 
seemed  most  prosperous  and  the  productive  power 
of  labor  was  at  its  highest  point .'^  That  was  the 
question ! 

[99] 


100  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

The  struggle  of  man  upward  through  all  the  vicis- 
situdes of  the  rise  and  fall  of  governments  has  been 
a  long  and  toilsome  journey,  first,  roaming  bands 
whose  only  law  was  "Might  makes  Right,"  who 
fought  for  supremacy  and  power  over  others  of 
their  kind;  then  to  primitive  governments  of 
small  domain,  at  constant  war  with  each  other,  and 
their  gradual  growth  by  conquest  until  nations 
became  a  reality. 

Government  had  its  beginning  through  the  maxim 
that  "Might  makes  Right"  and  through  the  slave 
system.  Those  captured  in  battle  were  forced  to 
become  the  slaves  of  those  by  whom  they  were 
defeated.  Thus  we  see  that  the  distinguishing 
feature  of  early  systems  of  government  was  compe- 
tition for  wealth  and  power  by  war.  The  success 
of  a  nation  or  a  people  on  the  field  of  battle  meant 
increase  of  wealth  by  slave  labor,  and  consequently 
greater  power  to  overcome  or  to  resist  the  attack 
of  neighbors.  When  these  primitive  governments 
began  to  take  form  and  location,  division  of  property 
and  slaves  and  the  spoils  of  war  became  the  great 
source  of  individual  income,  wealth,  power,  and  in- 
fluence;   in  other  words,  war,  invasion,  and  pillage 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  101 

became  a  business  on  which  nations  grew  and  thrived. 
Men  of  successful  nations  were  rewarded  for  valor 
and  bravery  in  war  by  gifts  of  land,  of  slaves,  and 
women;  for  captured  women  included  in  the  spoils 
of  war  were  a  valuable  asset  to  growing  nations. 
Successful  warriors  were  also  given  titles  of  honor 
and  nobility,  and  here  we  see  the  institution  of 
individual  property  right  and  class  distinction  estab- 
lished, which  has  lasted  to  this  day.  All  these  primi- 
tive governments  lacked  stability,  and  the  fortunes 
of  war  shifted  constantly.  All  in  turn  were  de- 
feated or  destroyed  by  more  powerful  neighbors, 
or,  by  internal  friction  and  dissension  when  they 
grew  rich  and  powerful  and  drunk  w^ith  success,  and 
placed  their  iron  heel  on  the  neck  of  the  masses. 
At  a  later  day  competition  for  wealth  between  na- 
tions shifted  from  the  battlefield  to  the  field  of  in- 
dustry, to  the  annexing  of  lands  of  new  countries, 
and  to  attaining  dominion  over  the  highways  and 
byways  of  commerce.  Trading  became  the  bone 
of  contention,  and  armies  and  navies  were  strength- 
ened and  maintained  as  a  protection  and  to  hold 
positions  of  advantage. 

As  civilization  advanced,  slavery  became  a  source 


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of  disturbance  until  it  was  finally  abolished  in  all 
civilized  nations.  This  brings  us  to  the  commercial 
or  industrial  age,  when  war  between  nations  is  still 
a  menace,  but  is  as  nothing  in  its  destroying  effects 
and  results  when  compared  with  the  civil  war  for 
individual  wealth  which  has  sprung  into  being 
throughout  the  world  and  made  of  every  man  a 
hypocrite  and  liar.  We  still  cling  to  *' Might  makes 
Right";  but  the  field  of  battle  has  shifted  from  the 
domain  of  brave  men  and  heroes  of  history  and  story, 
who  pitted  strength  against  strength  in  the  open,  to 
a  civil  war  that  wages  on  every  hearth  between 
brothers,  friends,  and  neighbors, — a  hand-to-hand 
conflict  that  stamps  its  imprint  of  destroying  pas- 
sions, cunning,  and  crime  on  every  face.  The  war 
is  at  our  door,  a  hand-to-hand  struggle:  there  is  no 
rest,  and  woe  betide  the  man  who  shows  weakness 
or  pity,  or  is  caught  without  his  knife. 

If  you  analyze  the  history  of  nations,  you  will 
find,  no  matter  what  their  form  of  government,  all 
were  internally  divided  into  two  distinct  classes, — 
Rich  and  Poor,  Masters  and  Slaves, — and  that  the 
breach  between  these  factions  grew  wider  and 
wider,   from   the   birth   of   a   nation,    until,    when 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  103 

patience    ceased    to    be    a    virtue,    it    was    finally 
destroyed. 

Slaves  were  the  spoils  of  battle  in  early  civili- 
zation, and  a  source  of  wealth.  At  a  later  day, 
when  slaves  could  not  be  captured  in  sufficient 
number  to  meet  the  demands  of  successful  na- 
tions for  labor,  then  slaves  were  created  by  law, 
and  consisted  of  the  helpless  and  poorer  element 
of  the  social  order  and  their  children  who  were 
born  to  slavery. 

Still  later,  when  ownership  of  human  beings  be- 
came unpopular,  the  Masters  found  a  better  way  to 
put  the  ball  and  chain  on  labor.     They  secured 

CONTROL   OF   LEGISLATION   AND   ENACTED   LAWS 
WHICH  MADE  SLAVES  OF  ALL  LABOR. 

For  twenty  years  the  writer  has  had  before  him 
this  question  of  Master  and  Slave,  and  viewed  it 
from  every  point  of  the  industrial  compass,  and  has 
always  come  back  to  the  same  answer, — the  dis- 
ease WHICH  SOONER  OR  LATER  REACHES  THE  HEART 
AND  BRAIN  OF  A  NATION  AND  DESTROYS  IT,  IS  INDI- 
VIDUALISM, THAT  FORM  OF  INDIVIDUALISM  WHICH 
RECOGNIZES  COMPETITION  BETWEEN  INDIVIDUALS 
OR     NATIONS     FOR    INDIVIDUAL     POSSESSION    OF     THE 


104  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

MATERIAL   WEALTH    PRODUCED    BY    LABOR.       And    the 

inevitable   conclusion    is,    that   whatever    causes 

MAY  BE  contributing  FACTORS  TO  THE  DISINTE- 
GRATION AND  DOWNFALL  OF  NATIONS,  THE  GREAT 
UNDERLYING  CAUSE  HAS  ALWAYS  BEEN  THE  GRAVITA- 
TION   OF   ACCUMULATING    WEALTH    INTO     THE     HANDS 

OF  INDIVIDUALS,  followcd  by  usurpation  of  power 
of  government,  consequent  class  legislation,  and  the 
division  of  the  people  into  two  antagonistic  forces, 
— Rich  and  Poor,  Capital  and  Labor,  Master  and 
Slave.  Like  attracts  like.  Wealth  and  power  at- 
tract wealth  and  power;  and,  if  the  industrial 
system  adopted  by  any  government  has  for 
its  underlying  principle  competition  between 
individuals  for  possession  of  material  wealth 
produced  by  labor,  then  by  the  economic 
Law  of  Gravitation  wealth  and  power  must 
gravitate  into  individual  hands,  and  sooner 
or    later    history    will    repeat     itself,     the 

STRAIN  BETWEEN  THE  MASTERS  AND  SlAVES  WILL 
REACH  THE  BREAKING  POINT,  AND  THE  GOVERN- 
MENT   WILL    FALL. 

This   is    history.     It    is   not   the   form    of   gov- 
ernment that  has  presaged  disaster,   but   the   un- 


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derlying  principle  of  individualism,  a  recognition 
of  the  Divine  Right  of  Kings, — not  the  Kings 
on  the  Throne,  but  the  Kings  of  Property  and 
Wealth  of  Industry,  who,  by  virtue  of  their 
wealth  are  the  legislative  power  of  any  nation. 
What  is  the  answer?  Turn  the  stream  of 
gold    flowing   into  individual  hands  into  the 

TREASURY      OF      THE      PEOPLE.        YoU      ask HoW? — 

And  I  answer, — Look  about  you.  See  what  indi- 
viduals are  doing.  Look  at  the  United  States 
Steel  Corporation,  the  Railroad  Corporations,  the 
Standard  Oil  Company,  the  Sugar  Trust,  the  Tele- 
phone and  Telegraph  Monopoly,  and  the  thousands 
of  corporations  that  are  binding  together  in  cor- 
porate harmony  millions  and  millions  of  money, 
and  thousands  upon  thousands  of  individuals,  and 
centralizing  intelligence  and  power  in  a  manner 
unknown  in  any  former  history  of  the  world.  Do 
you  learn  anything  from  this.'^  Do  not  these  great 
corporations  which  absorb  whole  industries,  thereby 
bringing  order  out  of  chaos,  suggest  any  possi- 
bilities to  your  mind — the  possibility  of  Incor- 
porating THE  World's  People,  the  World's 
Wealth,  and  the  World's   Industries,   and   the 


106  ''WORLD  CORPORATION" 

elimination  of  all  friction  and  all  competi- 
tion? 

Individual  corporations  are  but  parts  of  the 
machine  of  industry,  and  the  mass  is  greater  than 
any  individual  part  or  combination  of  parts,  and 
once  incorporated,  the  people  will  be  invincible  and 
quickly  absorb  all  wealth  and  all  industry.  History 
only  repeats  itself  because  we  repeat  history.  Are 
we  automatons  that  we  should  follow  century  after 
century  in  the  footsteps  of  folly,  disaster,  and  crime  .^^ 
What  are  we  given  reasoning  power  for  if  it  is  not 
to  avoid  mistakes  and  to  profit  by  experience.'* 

When  we  look  over  the  scarred  battlefields  of  the 
past  where  buried  cities  and  crumbling  ruins  are 
silent  monuments  of  man's  struggle  for  knowledge 
and  light,  and  realize  that  civilization  after  civiliza- 
tion has  gone  down  to  irretrievable  disaster  under 
the  banner  of  individualism,  does  it  not  seem  strange 
that  some  mind  in  all  these  centuries  has  not  grasped 
the  idea  of  incorporating  the  people  of  the  world 
into  one  Corporate  Body,  with  one  Corporate  Mind, 

THEREBY  DIVERTING  THE  STREAM  OF  WEALTH  FROM 
INDIVIDUAL  CONTROL  TO  THE  CONTROL  OF  THE  COR- 
PORATE BoDY  .^     "World  Corporation"  is  quickly 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  107 

and  easily  attained  without  recourse  to  legislation, 
and  scientific  in  all  its  bearings  of  equity  and 
justice.     It  is  a  simple  process  of  conversion 

BY  absorption  OF  ALL  CORPORATIONS  INTO  ONE, 

"World  Corporation." 

Wealth,  the  product  of  labor,  is  the  accumulation 
of  many  generations,  and  no  individual  has  a  moral 
right  to  hold  as  his  property  that  which  is  the  result 
of  ages  of  accumulation  and  the  product  of  the  brain 
and  manual  labor  of  millions  of  individuals.  This 
accumulation  of  wealth  of  toil  is  an  inheritance  which 
belongs  to  the  people,  not  to  individuals.  It  is  a 
trust  that  should  be  safeguarded  from  pillage  and 
handed  down  intact  to  our  children  and  our  chil- 
dren's children. 

Competition  in  the  production  and  distribu- 
tion OF  PRODUCTS   IS   LICENSED   ROBBERY,   and   civil 

war  with  all  the  horrors  of  civil  war  follows  in  its 
wake.  Every  crime  and  degrading  passion  has  its 
birth  here;  and  sickness,  wretchedness,  and  all  the 
ills  of  the  flesh  cry  out  against  "man's  inhumanity 
to  man."  Actual  war  between  nations,  or  civil  war, 
such  as  the  French  Revolution  or  the  Civil  War  of 
America,  were  Christmas  festivities  when  compared 


108  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

with  the  disastrous  effects  of  this  incessant  daily 
warfare  of  competition  for  wealth, — this  hand-to- 
hand  struggle  which  never  ends,  where  every  indi- 
vidual hides  the  rottenness  of  his  soul  by  wearing 
a  mask.  Competition  fans  the  flames  of  hell;  makes 
cowards,  thieves,  and  liars;  breeds  immorality, 
selfishness,  envy,  and  greed;  fosters  hatred,  and  is 
responsible  for  all  the  crime  about  us.  To  this 
god  and  idol  of  civilization  is  sacrificed  every  year 
millions  and  millions  of  lives,  that  drop  and  perish 
in  the  inhuman  struggle. 

We  all  recognize  that  it  is  the  system  that  is  at 
fault,  not  the  fortunate  beneficiaries  of  the  system: 
they  only  accept  what  the  Goddess  Chance  has 
given  them,  and  which  mankind  in  his  blind  folly 
and  idolatry  makes  possible;  therefore  the  situa- 
tion cannot  be  bettered  by  acrimonious  argument 
or  by  attacking  personalities.  It  is  a  question  for 
individual  thought,  reason,  and  united  action. 

We  are  face  to  face  with  the  problem  of  the  ages : 
the  world  is  divided  into  two  camps,  the  Masters  and 
the  Slaves,  and  the  breach  is  getting  wider  every 
hour.  How  long  will  it  be  before  the  strain  reaches 
the  breaking  point? 


WORLD   CORPORATION"  109 


We  hear  the  crying  of  children,  the  weeping  of 
mothers;  and  in  the  faces  of  men  we  see  the  hnes  of 
care  that  worry  and  anxiety  have  wrought,  and  the 
haunting  look  of  doubt  and  fear  that  makes  cowards 
of  us  all.  It  is  the  system  of  competition  that  is 
at  fault.     We  must  change  the  system. 


SHOULD  LABOR  BE  A   SLAVE? 

Should  labor  necessary  to  operate  the  machine  of 
industry  be  a  slave,  be  held  as  in  a  vise,  and  forced 
to  work  from  year's  end  to  year's  end,  always  within 
striking  distance  of  the  driver's  whip,  simply  to  pile 
up  wealth  for  a  few?  Are  these  toilers  human  beings, 
or  are  they  screws  and  bolts  and  cogs  of  this  wealth- 
producing  mechanism,  to  be  used  until  they  rust  or 
wear  out,  then  cast  aside  for  parts  that  are  new? 

Cannot  man  understand  that  there  is  a  higher  and 
better  field  of  competition  to  stimulate  ambition 
than  the  making  of  money  and  the  attainment  of 
individual  power? — an  ambition  which  is  rising 
as  one  voice  from  labor  all  over  the  world;  the  am- 
bition to  be  free,  to  live  in  freedom,  freedom  of 
opportunity  to  rise  to  those  illimitable  fields  of 
knowledge  encompassed  by  time  and  space.  Under 
"World  Corporation"  freedom  will  take  on  a 
different  meaning:  each  individual  will  live  his 
own  life,  and  all  the  world  will  lend  itself  to  his 

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"WORLD  CORPORATION''  111 

education  and  advancement,  to  the  end  that  all  may 
benefit  by  his  knowledge.  Each  mind  will  be  a 
star  in  a  constellation  of  millions  of  stars  and  planet^ : 
each  revolving  in  its  particular  orbit  around  a  com- 
mon central  sun, — the  great  orb  of  knowledge, — 
"World  Corporation."  Freedom  means  depend- 
ence on  the  central  sun  alone,  which  says  to  each 
individual,   "Give  me   your    labor,  and    I    will 

GIVE  YOU  THE  RESULTS  OF  YOUR  LABOR  ON  A 
BASIS    OF    EQUITY." 

"World  Corporation"  will  lead  us  out  of  the 
w^ilderness.  The  only  question  is,  Are  we  honest 
in  our  desire  to  attain  a  better  industrial  system.^ 
Are  we  so  strong  in  our  love  for  what  is  right, 
for  what  is  just,  that  we  can  crush  those  ambi- 
tions for  wealth  and  power,  which  have  been  a 
growth  with  our  growth,  and  have  their  roots  im- 
planted in  the  very  fibre  of  our  being?  My  faith 
IS  IN  MAN,  and  in  the  belief  that  every  soul  finds 
time  for  true  expression  when  the  weary  money- 
maker rests.  Tired,  weary,  and  helpless,  he  falls 
a  victim  to  his  better  self,  which  cries  out  from  its 
prison  and  demands  the  right  to  live.  It  is  the  still 
small   voice    which   the   world   calls   "Conscience," 


112  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

the  soul's  protest  against  the  prostitution  of  self 
to  base  uses.  It  is  this  voice,  the  voice  of  Truth, 
which  in  great  crises  of  human  progress  rises  like 
a  tidal  wave  and  sweeps  away  the  barriers  that  have 
hemmed  it  in.  Truth  is  mighty  and  eternal,  dis- 
honesty a  coward,  and,  when  discovered  by  Truth, 
must  go  down  before  it.  ''World  Corporation" 
is  Truth;  Competition  is  Untruth;  "World 
Corporation"  stands  face  to  face  with  Compe- 
tition. One  is  individual  force  throughout  the  world 
divided  and  sub-divided  and  at  war  with  each 
other.  The  other  is  the  gathering  of  all  the  hosts 
of  the  earth,  marching  in  unbroken  rank  and 
solid  body  against  its  foe.  Such  is  the  position  of 
Competition  and  Corporation,  such  is  the  position 
of  Untruth  and  Truth,  such  is  the  position  of 
Injustice  and  Justice,  and  all  the  power  of  man  can- 
not prevail  against  it. 


KINGS  AND   SLAVES. 

Power  begot  Kings  and  Emperors  and  Titles ;  and 
laws  were  made  by  the  rich  for  the  rich,  to  make 
them  richer  and  more  powerful.  The  common 
people,  or,  more  truthfully,  the  actual  working, 
wealth-producing  class,  were  those  who  directly 
or  indirectly  by  taxation,  paid  for  the  maintenance 
of  government,  the  cost  of  maintaining  a  titled  and 
wealthy  class,  the  cost  of  making  and  maintaining 
laws  which  were  intended  to,  and  did,  enslave  them- 
selves, and  this  system  has  been  handed  down  as 
an  inheritance  to  this  day.  To  the  unbiased, 
honest,  reasoning  man  or  woman  no  argument  is 

NECESSARY  TO  PROVE  ANY  SYSTEM  WRONG  WHICH 
PERMITS    INDIVIDUALS    TO    BE    BORN    TO    A    LIFE    OF 

NON-PRODUCTIVENESS.  When  you  see  millions  of 
such  individuals  living,  eating,  and  drinking  day  by 
day,  wearing  fine  clothes,  living  in  beautiful  homes, 
and  enjoying  all  the  pleasures,  luxuries,  and  follies 
that  life  can  give,  yet  never  lifting  a  hand  to  bal- 

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114  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

ance  their  consumption  of  labor's  product,  you 
BEGIN  TO  WONDER  WHO  PAYS.  Why  is  labor  such  a 
coward  that  it  submits  to  be  driven  to  the  tread- 
mill day  after  day,  year  after  year,  to  supply  rich 
foods,  costly  raiment,  palaces,  works  of  art,  luxuries 
of  travel,  and  endless  amusement  to  those  who 
never  throughout  a  long  life  give  back  to  man  a 
single  ounce  of  productive  energy. 

For  the  sake  of  making  the  picture  stand  forth 
clear  and  definite,  let  us  take  a  single  instance  as 
an  example  of  the  whole  system.  Here  is  an  indi- 
vidual who  has  lived  a  long  life,  yet  from  cradle  to 
grave  has  never  labored,  has  never  produced.  He 
has  been  a  consumer  of  products  only.  Now,  in 
order  to  maintain  this  individual,  what  happens  .^^ 
He  sits  on  his  throne  of  idleness  and  luxury  in  robes 
of  state,  with  all  the  pomp  and  ceremony  of  Kings 
at  his  command,  and  all  the  laborers  of  the  world 
come  to  him  and  make  offerings  of  gifts,  the  product 
of  their  labor.  The  farmer  who  toils  and  sweats 
from  sunrise  to  sunset  gives  offerings  of  the  best  that 
his  farm  produces, — wool  from  his  sheep,  products 
of  his  dairy,  and  all  the  food  for  his  table.  What 
matters   that    the  farmer,  bent  and  old  from  toil. 


WORLD  CORPORATION"  115 


must  be  content  with  the  remnants  of  those  products 
of  his  labor  which  cannot  find  a  market?  What 
matters  it  that  his  clothing  is  poor  and  coarse, 
his  home  isolated,  small,  dull,  and  cheerless,  his 
children  lacking  opportunity  for  learning  and  cult- 
ure? Is  not  all  this  sacrifice  a  privilege,  so  that  he 
may  contribute  to  the  ease  and  comfort  and  wealth 
of  the  individual  on  the  throne,  the  elect  of  the 
earth,— The  Idle  One?  Is  it  not  true  that  the  world 
would  go  to  smash  if  it  were  not  for  the  idle  rich? 

We  see  the  great  mills  of  the  world, — silk,  cotton, 
wool,  and  fine  linen, — all  contributing  the  best  of 
their  products  to — The  Idle  One  on  the  throne. 
Tailors,  dressmakers,  milliners,  bootmakers,  gold 
and  precious  jewel  producers  in  far-away  countries, 
furriers  and  trappers  in  the  frozen  North,  and  hun- 
dreds of  others  who  sweat  and  labor  and  freeze  and 
starve  in  all  parts  of  the  world,  all  coming  and  going 
in  endless  procession,  each  and  every  one  humbly 
bending  his  knee  at  the  foot  of  that  throne,  and 
giving  offerings  of  thought  and  toil  to— The  Idle 
One.  Why,— tell  me  why?  What  has  The  Idle  One 
done  to  earn  this  homage?  What  has  he  done  to 
earn  freedom  from  toil  and  the  right  to  absorb  the 


116  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

toil  of  others?  Everything  that  heart  or  mind  can 
crave  or  vanity  demand  is  offered  in  sacrifice  by  labor 
to  placate — The  Idle  One.  The  procession  does  not 
end,  IT  NEVER  ends;  from  cradle  to  grave  every 
minute  sees  further  offerings  made  at  the  foot  of  this 
throne.  All  the  labor  going  on  in  the  world  at  all 
times  is  contributing  the  best  and  greater  part  of  the 
results  of  labor  to  the  individual  who  never  produces, 
— ^The  Idle  One:  for  a  man  cannot  live  without 

LABOR,  EXCEPT  HE  LIVE  ON  THE  LABOR  OF  OTHERS. 

Let  us  look  at  the  picture  from  another  point 
of  view.  Let  us  suppose  that  a  hundred  families 
should  decide  to  go  West,  take  up  a  tract  of  land 
and  start  a  government.  Is  it  possible  to  imagine 
that  fifty  of  these  families  would  be  content  to  do 
all  the  labor  and  produce  all  that  was  necessary  to 
feed,  clothe,  and  house  the  hundred  families,  allow- 
ing fifty  families  to  be  absolutely  idle  and  simply 
consumers?  Can  you  imagine  the  fifty  who  labored 
being  so  self-sacrificing  and  so  generous  that  they 
would  be  content  to  live  in  hovels  and  tenements, 
be  content  with  poor  and  insuflicient  food  and  cloth- 
ing, be  content  to  see  their  children  denied  the 
privileges  of  education  and  development,  all  because 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  117 

they  wanted  to  build  palaces  for  the  idle  families, 
supply  them  with  rich  raiment  and  foods,  and  give 
their  children  advantages  of  education  and  happiness? 

Such  are  the  conditions  under  which  civilization 
has  existed  since  the  beginning.  It  is  the  condition 
under  which  we  live  to-day,  and  the  only  answer  is. 
We  are  fools. 

The  only  difference  between  a  Monarchy  and  a 
Republic  is  that  we  do  not  call  our  idle  rich.  Kings, 
Dukes,  and  Princes.  We  pat  ourselves  on  the  back 
and  think  we  have  side-tracked  the  nobility  and 
made  wonderful  progress,  but  we  are  only  fooling 
ourselves.  We  have  planted  the  same  seed,  and 
IT  MUST  BEAR  THE  SAME  FRUIT.  We  may  Call  it  an- 
other name  to  make  it  palatable.  "But  a  rose  by 
any  other  name,"  etc.  What  fools!  We  know  in 
our  hearts  that  our  whole  system  is  putrid  and 
rotten  to  the  core,  and  that  sooner  or  later  we  must 
face  the  inevitable,  when  patience  ceases  to  be  a 
virtue.  Did  I  say  ''must".'^  Then  I  am  wrong, 
for  the  people  have  it  in  their  hands  to  change  the 
picture  by  "World    Corporation." 


REASON. 

Under  every  governmental  system  co-operation 
had  been  the  fundamental  idea;  but  such  co-opera- 
tion HAS  STOPPED  AT  GOVERNMENT.  Individuals 
have  always  been  recognized  as  competitive  units  in 
the  production  and  distribution  of  products,  and  indi- 
vidual owners  of  wealth  derived  from  labor.  This 
"Fight  it  out  among  yourselves  "  idea,  with  constitu- 
tional laws  supporting  such  a  system,  and  the  recog- 
nition of  individual  right  to  ownership  of  any 
amount  of  wealth,  has  always  resulted  in  the  gravita- 
tion of  accumulating  wealth  into  individual  hands. 
There  was  no  other  place  for  it  to  gravitate 
TO.  Injustice  springs  into  life  here,  wealth  is  at- 
tracted to  wealth,  and  sooner  or  later  the  mass  will 
be  poor  and  the  few  will  be  rich. 

Having  only  material  things  to  deal  with,  there 
should  be  no  mystery  attached  to  an  industrial  sys- 
tem. It  is  a  mathematical  problem,  and  nothing 
can  be  gained  by  pitting  men,  women,  and  children 

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against  each  other  in  a  struggle  to  see  who  will 
do  the  work,  and  who  will  grab  the  most  of  the 
product. 

The  rational  system  will  combine  government  and 
production  in  one.     It  will  be  more  equitable  for 

ALL  INDIVIDUALS  TO  BE  EMPLOYEES  OF  A  SYSTEM  OF 
PRODUCTION  AND  DISTRIBUTION,  WHERE  THE  PEOPLE 
OWN  THE  WHOLE  INDUSTRIAL  FIELD,  THAN  FOR  P^^RT 
OF  THE  PEOPLE  TO  OWN  THE  INDUSTRIAL  SYSTEM  AND 

PART  BE  SLAVES,  as  is  uow  the  case.  I  would  rather 
work  for  a  *' World  Corporate  System"  than  be 
a  large  proprietor  or  capitalist  under  a  competitive 
system,  or  a  large  stockholder  in  any  individual 
corporation.  I  would  rather  take  my  chances  on 
an  intellectual  basis  with  all  other  individuals  under 
a  corporate  system,  than  in  this  inferno  of  compe- 
tition, where  crime  most  often  takes  the  place  of 
intelligence  in  the  accumulation  of  wealth. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company  is  an  example  of  a 
rational    governmental    industrial    system,    if    you 

eliminate    STOCKHOLDERS,    WHO     AS   SUCH   ARE    NOT 

NECESSARY  TO  ITS  OPERATION.  It  is  a  govern- 
ment within  itself,  far  in  advance  of  any  gov- 
ernment to-day.     It  is   a  government  of  order,  a 


120  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

machine  whose  every  part  is  necessary  to  a  purpose. 
In  its  operation  it  involves  a  hundred  thousand 
employees  in  different  parts  of  the  world,  and  com- 
bines thousands  of  stockholders;  yet  within  itself 
it  requires  no  lawyers  to  keep  it  in  operation,  and 
no  laws  except  a  few  by-laws  to  determine  rights 
of  individual  interests.  It  only  requires  use  of 
lawyers  when  it  comes  in  contact  with  the  chaotic 
system  around  it. 

Standard  Oil  is  always  reaching  out  for  greater 
power  and  absorption  of  new  industries.  Very 
few  have  any  conception  of  the  many  fields  which 
have  been  invaded  and  to  a  great  extent  absorbed 
by  this  octopus  of  modern  times.  And  it  is  good! 
I  believe  with  all  my  reasoning  it  is  good !  For  the 
wrongs  that  have  been  laid  at  the  door  of  Standard 
Oil  are  nothing  when  compared  with  the  benefits 
derived  by  the  whole  human  race  from  economies 
secured.  Corporation  is  the  system  of  the  future, 
and  in  the  evolution  from  one  system  to  the  other 
individual  promoters  are  necessary  in  rounding 
up  scattered  plants  of  different  industries,  and  under 
our  present  competitive  system  of  war  and  strife 
men  do  not  handle  men  with  gloves    or  stop   to 


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pour  balm  and  comfort  into  the  wounds  of  those  who 
fall  in  battle,  for  competition  is  war  in  which  com- 
batants neither  give  nor  ask  for  quarter.  Evils 
resulting  from  corporation  during  this  process  are 
real,  but  are  more  than  balanced  by  the  substantial 
economies  permanently  attained  by  corporation, 
just  as  economies  are  attained  by  invention  of  any 
machine,  which,  by  economic  advantage,  displaces 
another  machine.  Individuals  may  be  tricked,  may 
suffer,  stocks  may  be  watered  and  insiders  profit. 
These  are  all  evils,  but  they  are  evils  which  cannot 
be  entirely  avoided;  for  our  government  is  unpre- 
pared for  the  great  evolution  that  is  taking  place. 
Its  laws  are  inadequate  and  adjustment  slow  and 
difficult. 

The  monumental  blunder  of  the  century  is  the 
restraint  put  upon  centralization  by  the  Sherman 
Act.  The  proper  course  for  our  government  to 
pursue  would  be  to  allow  the  consolidation  and  cen- 
tralization of  industry  and  assist  it  in  every  way — 
not  put  barriers  up  to  prevent  the  operation  of 
Economic  Law.  It  is  time  enough  to  bring  the 
restraining  influence  of  Government  to  bear,  when 
such  consolidated   corporations  are  being  operated 


122  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

to  the  detriment  of  public  interest.  The  Govern- 
ment can  never  make  permanent  headway  in  op- 
posing Natural  Laws. 

Laws  in  restraint  of  corporation  will  never 
BE  effective,  and,  the  sooner  we  recognize  good 
in  corporation  and  its  final  utility  as  a  World 
System,  the  better  off  we  will  be.  Mankind  has 
always  recognized  co-operative  effort  by  govern- 
ment as  a  factor  of  community  life,  yet  never  given 
his  sanction  to  co-operative  effort  in  industry. 
This  is  where  he  failed.  Misled  by  false  rea- 
soning on  question  of  incentive  to  ambition,  he  has 
followed  the  will-o'-the-wisp  competition  for  ages,  and 
never  seemed  to  realize  that  poverty  and  crime  were 
effects  of  an  underlying  cause  in  his  system,  the 

CAUSE  HE  BELIEVED  IN, COMPETITION  FOR  WeALTH. 

Thank  God  for  Corporation!  Thank  God  that 
out  of  all  the  chaotic  conditions  of  past  govern- 
ments— their  rise  and  fall — that  Corporation  has 
been  born!  Thank  God  for  Standard  Oil,  United 
States  Steel,  Amalgamated,  our  great  systems  of 
Corporate  Railroads,  and  all  the  hundreds  of  large 
and  small  industrial  corporations!  For  out  of  all 
these  corporations  is  born  "World  Corporation.'* 


ECONOMIC  LAW. 

Economic  Law  is  that  law  of  life  which  dominates 
the  mind  and  directs  the  reasoning  intelligence  into 
paths  of  least  resistance,  in  arriving  at  desired  re- 
sults.    This    law    does    not    determine    what 

SHALL,  OR  SHALL  NOT  BE  PRODUCED,  OR  WHAT 
SHALL,  OR  SHALL  NOT  BE  DONE  BY  LIVING  INTEL- 
LIGENCES; BUT  IT  DIRECTS  OUR  EFFORTS  TO  PRO- 
DUCE, AND  TO  DO  THAT  WHICH  WE  WANT  TO  PRODUCE 
OR  DO,  AS  INDIVIDUALS  OR  AS  A  PEOPLE,  BY  THE 
LEAST   EXPENDITURE   OF  BRAIN  AND   MANUAL  LABOR. 

When  this  law  is  disregarded,  either  through  igno- 
rance or  by  intention.  Nature  exacts  her  penalty,  and 
man  individually  and  collectively  is  the  loser.  To 
live  in  accord  with  Economic  Law  is  to  better  under- 
stand Nature  and  Nature's  laws,  thereby  making 
it  possible  to  bring  into  more  harmonious  relation 
man  and  his  environment.  Recognition  of  this  law 
and  the  adjustment  of  individual  and  community 
life  to  its   demands  is  essential  to  rapid  progress, 

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124  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

and  the  degree  of  such  recognition  determines  in 
like  degree  man's  health,  happiness,  and  material 
welfare. 

Constancy  in  Nature  in  its  conservation  of  energy 
gives  to  knowledge  a  scientific  base,  and  brings  the 
whole  universe  within  the  sphere  of  mathematics. 
What  is  true  of  Nature  in  its  conservation  of  energy, 
should  also  be  true  of  man.  Individually  we  un- 
consciously recognize  Economic  Law  and  its  re- 
lation to  life  when  we  do  what  we  have  to  do  in 
the  easiest  way,  and  with  the  least  expenditure  of 
brain  and  manual  labor.  When  two  or  more  of  us 
combine  in  a  business  partnership,  we  recognize 
Economic  Law  by  joining  our  intelligences  for  a 
common  purpose.  We  unconsciously  recognize  the 
progressive  power  of  concentrated  force.  This  is 
still  further  true  when  a  corporation  joins  together 
many  individuals  for  a  common  purpose.  These 
individuals  may  widely  differ  in  their  likes  and  dis- 
likes, their  beliefs  and  nationalities,  their  habits 
and  their  intelligences;  but  in  a  corporation  they 
find  a  common  ground  of  meeting  and  a  practical 
way  of  joining  forces.  This  is  to  a  greater  extent 
true  when  a  trust  is  formed,  which  becomes  almost 


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invincible  in  power  on  account  of  the  concentra- 
tion of  intellectual  force  and  wealth  to  a  common 
purpose;    and  there  is  absolutely  no  limit  to 

THE  extension  OF  SUCH  POWER  AND  FORCE  EXCEPT 
THE   COMBINATION  OF  ALL  PEOPLE  AND  ALL  WEALTH 

IN  ONE  Corporate  Body.  We  see  from  this  that 
the  individual  lives  in  accord  with  Economic  Law. 
We  see  the  same  when  two  or  more  combine  for 
a  common  purpose,  and,  again,  when  individuals 
combine  in  a  corporation,  and  to  a  greater  extent 
when  corporations  combine  with  corporations  in  a 
so-called   trust.      But,    when   we    look    at   our 

NATION  OF  INDIVIDUALS,  WE  FIND  THERE  IS  ABSO- 
LUTELY NO  RECOGNITION  OF  ECONOMIC  LaW,  COL- 
LECTIVELY,   IN    ITS    INDUSTRIAL   LIFE. 

No  government  has  ever  attempted  to  organize 
industry  as  a  whole  and  bring  it  under  control  of 
the  Corporate    Mind,   else   would    governments 

HAVE   LIVED   AND   BEEN   PERMANENT. 

Our  nation  of  industry  is  like  a  large  manufacturing 
plant.  It  has  hundreds  of  thousands  of  separate 
departments  which  are  interdependent  one  on  the 
other,  and  should  work  harmoniously  as  one  mecha- 
nism, but  cannot  because  parts  are  in  conflict  with 


126  "WORLD  CORPORATION" 

each  other.  They  are  not  organized,  there  is  no 
over  directing  mind.  As  a  result  of.  this,  conflict 
takes  the  place  of  harmony,  and  chaos  and  waste 
is  the  result.  It  is  organization  of  the  thousands 
of  departments  and  branches  of  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  which  results  in  harmony  throughout 
its  whole  mechanism  and  gives  it  its  power.  In 
like  manner  all  the  individuals  in  the  world  can  live 
and  work  in  perfect  harmony  under  a  Corporate 
System,  no  matter  how  widely  they  may  diverge 
in  intelligence,  ambition,  habits,  desires,  beliefs, 
or  characteristic  conditions  of  mind. 

Corporations  and  Trusts  are  a  direct  sequence 
in  the  evolution  of  industry;  and  Economic  Law, 
always  a  permanent  active  force  in  directing  man's 
efforts  to  more  economical  results,  is  the  power 
behind  the  throne.  It  is  the  power  which  brought 
into  existence  United  States  Steel,  Standard  Oil, 
Sugar,  Leather,  Rubber,  and  all  other  large  cor- 
porations and  trusts;  for,  without  economic  results 
to  be  secured,  there  could  be  no  motive  or  reason  for 
centralization.  Whether  the  people  reap  the  bene- 
fit of  increased  economy  resulting  from  corporation, 
or  whether  they  do  not,  does  not  alter  the  fact  that 


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economy  is  secured,  thereby  demonstrating  that  cor- 
poration is  in  accord  with  and  brought  into  existence 
by  Economic  Law.  It  is  this  same  law  which  is 
behind  "World  Corporation." 

Economic  Law,  the  unseen  but  ever-present  power 
behind  intellectual  effort,  demands  that  industry 
shall  be  centralized,  and  no  legislation  or  opposition 
of  the  people  can  prevent  this  logical  consummation.. 
The  people  must  decide  whether  they  shall  continue 
to  allow  industry  to  centralize  in  the  hands  of  indi- 
viduals by  corporation,  thus  dividing  the  nation 
into  two  opposing  forces,  or  whether  they  will  in- 
voke the  invincible  power  of  Economic  Law  by 
corporation,  and  centralize  the  power  and  wealth 
of  industry  into  the  hands  of  the  people  by  "World 
Corporation." 


THE    CHAIN    OF    EVENTS. 

From  an  Economic,  therefore,  from  the  humanity 
standpoint,  every  national  industrial  system  has 
been  a  dismal  failure.  Leaving  out  societies,  sects, 
and  socialistic  or  social  colonists,  who  have  made 
isolated  attempts  to  establish,  in  a  small  way,  new 
social  and  industrial  systems,  all  of  which  have  been 
failures,  we  find  that  every  nation  has  founded  its 
social  and  industrial  system  upon  individual  com- 
petition for  wealth.  Out  of  these  conditions  has 
grown  the  capitalistic  or  favored  class,  who,  attain- 
ing power,  maintained  their  position  by  enactment 
of  laws  favorable  to  that  end. 

Those  who  do  not  reason  on  this  proposition 
dismiss  the  subject  by  saying:  "Well,  things  have 
always  been  this  way  and  always  must  be.  You 
cannot  change  human  nature.  We  are  all  diflFerent, 
all  have  different  desires.  You  cannot  evolve  a 
system  that  will  be  compelling  without  destroying 
everj^  incentive  to  ambition."     This  is  not  so,  for 

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no  system  could  be  more  compelling  than  the  system 
under  which  we  live.  It  is  so  compelling  that  you, 
who  read  this  article,  are  a  slave.  You  are  sur- 
rounded by  conditions  you  cannot  escape  from,  and 
your  freedom  is  confined  within  very  narrow  limits. 
You  may  be  one  of  the  fortunate  with  wealth  where- 
with to  surround  yourself  with  the  luxuries  of  this 
material  age.  Still  you  are  a  slave, — a  slave  to 
customs  and  conventionalities  that  are  disgusting, 
absurd,  and  ridiculous;  a  slave  to  vanity,  selfish- 
ness, and  money;  a  slave  to  your  servants  and  to 
your  foods.  If  you  are  rich,  you  escape  the  ne- 
cessity of  manual  labor;  but  this  is  slavery,  for  work 
of  mind  and  body  insures  health,  active  mentality 
and  love  of  life,  all  of  which  are  necessary  to  real 
happiness. 

The  mistake  of  many  is  their  willingness  to  refer 
to  precedent  for  an  answer  to  industrial  problems. 
This  is  an  easy  way  to  shift  the  responsibility  to  the 
shoulders  of  your  ancestors.  It  is  the  recourse  of 
the  man  who  is  too  lazy  to  think.  We  are  all  liable 
to  make  mistakes  and  accept  continued  errors  of 
judgment  as  facts;  for  it  is  hard  to  root  out  of  the 
human  mind  those  seeds  of  belief  that  have  been  a 


130  'WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

part  of  our  education  from  childhood,  and  which 
have  precedence  in  centuries  of  belief,  use,  and  prac- 
tice. We  find  minds  of  whole  nations  riveted  to 
particular  religious  beliefs,  to  particular  social  cus- 
toms, to  patriotism,  all  of  which  is  fatal  to  progress, 
insomuch  as  it  limits  the  mind's  horizon  and  closes 
it  to  truth ;  for,  if  we  w^ere  all  content  with  the  way 
our  fathers  and  mothers  believed,  then  we  would 
not  progress  at  all,  and  thinking  and  reasoning  would 
become  unfashionable.  We  have  got  to  think,  and 
think  hard,  to  get  below  false  ideas  that  are  a  part  of 
us.  Precedent  has  its  place  in  reason  and  logic. 
It  is  a  stepping-stone,  and  we  should  consider  its 
value  from  every  point  of  view.  By  so  doing,  we 
may  conclude  that  we  have  followed  this  or  that 
precedent  too  long,  or  we  may  conclude  to  go  on. 
We  may  conclude  that  what  was  good  at  one  time, 
and  a  necessary  part  of  the  chain  of  progress,  can 
now  be  dispensed  with  in  view  of  changes  in  our 
physical  or  mental  environment. 

Competition  between  individuals  has  been  the 
basic  idea  underlying  every  government.  The  ques- 
tion is.  Shall  we  remain  faithful  to  a  competitive 
system  because  we  have  always  had  a  competitive 


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system?  Or  shall  we  refuse  to  longer  follow  an 
idea  that  has  always  proved  a  failure?  For  no  one 
can  call  that  system  a  success,  which  entails  so  much 
misery  and  so  little  happiness,  and  which  has  always 
gone  down  in  disaster. 

During  the  last  twenty  years  there  has  appeared 
on  the  horizon  a  new  light,  and,  as  it  has  risen  toward 
the  zenith,  there  has  come  a  feeling  of  fear  to  many. 
Never  before  in  all  history  had  such  a  phenomenon 
been  seen.  Heretofore  men  had  been  content  to 
work  alone,  in  competition  with  each  other.  Pull- 
ing together,  instead  of  fighting  one  another,  never 
occurred  to  them.  It  is  true  that  large  capital 
and  numerous  individuals  were  joined  by  corpora- 
tion previous  to  twenty-five  years  ago,  but  in 
these  cases  it  did  not  seem  to  have  any  significance. 
It  was  looked  upon  as  necessary  that  many  indi- 
viduals should  join  capital  and  brains  for  develop- 
ing cables,  telegraphs,  transportation  systems,  etc.; 
but  opposition  sprung  to  active  life  as  soon  as  the 
field  of  individual  competitive  industry  was  invaded. 
Yet  in  the  face  of  opposition,  corporation  of  industry 
has  entered  many  fields  and  is  now  going  forward 
at  a  rapid  pace. 


132  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

Corporation  of  competitive  industry  is  the 
NEW  light  on  the  HORIZON,  and  every  day  it  grows 
brighter,  and,  as  its  rays  penetrate  deeper  and 
deeper  into  the  reasoning  inteUigence,  fear  begins 
to  disappear.  We  begin  to  see  that  corporation 
has  power  to  join  in  harmony  milHons  and  milHons 
of  individuals,  and,  where  chaos  reigned,  order  and 
system  takes  its  place.  As  we  look  into  the  future, 
we  see  these  corporations  growing  larger  and  larger. 
We  see  new  ones  springing  into  existence,  and,  like 
a  dissolving  view,  we  see  the  chaotic  conditions  of 
industry  gradually,  almost  imperceptibly,  merge 
into  a  beautiful  mechanism,  scientific  in  all  its  parts 
and  under  perfect  control.  A  step  further  in  advance 
and  we  see  another  change, — corporation  is  absorb- 
ing corporations,  and  the  new  machine  is  more 
perfect  than  all  that  have  gone  before.  And  so  we 
continue  to  follow,  step  by  step,  the  chain  of  events 
in  the  future,  link  by  link,  until  we  arrive  at  what.? 
What  can  it  be  other  than  the  corporation  of  the 
people — "World  Corporation." 


KNOWLEDGE  THE  ASSET  OF  A  NATION. 

A  government  is  an  individual  made  up  of  in- 
dividual units,  and  its  position  in  the  world  of  na- 
tions is  determined  by  the  sum  of  its  knowledge,  not 
by    the    number    of    individuals.     Therefore,    the 

FUNDAMENTAL    ASSET    OF   A    NATION    IS    KNOWLEDGE. 

This   being  true,   the  first  purpose   of  any  nation 
should  be  to  acquire  knowledge.     To  this  end  the 
child  from  its  birth  should  be  considered  an  asset  of 
the  nation,  and  placed  under  its  fostering  care  dur- 
ing its  development;    and,  as  the  education  of  the 
child  is  for  usefulness  in  the  field  of  industry  and 
administration  of  government,  there  should  be  no 
break    between    these    departments.     The    system 
should  be  a  sequence  of  steps  by  which  the  individ- 
ual   rises    from    one    plane    of    intelligence    to    an- 
other throughout  his   life.     Thus   would   a   nation 
subserve  the  greatest  of  all  interests,  the  intellect- 
ual advancement  of  the  nation  as  a  nation,  and  pro- 
vide the  means  whereby  each  individual  would  have 

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134  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

the  opportunity  to  acquire  knowledge,  advance  to 
industry,  and  finally  to  the  direction  of  government 
by  systematic  progression.  Under  this  system 
there  would  be  no  break  in  the  progress  of  the  in- 
dividual. He  would  be  an  intellectual  asset,  to  be 
encouraged  and  assisted  in  every  way  by  the  nation, 
in  the  hope  and  anticipation  of  his  developing 
genius,  and  giving  birth  to  ideas  of  improvement  or 
discovery  that  would  broaden  the  base  of  knowl- 
edge and  benefit  mankind.  If  only  one  in  thou- 
sands so  educated  should  prove  to  be  an  Edison, 
interest  and  principle  on  total  investment  would 
be  compounded  many  fold. 

The  intent  of  our  present  educational  system  is 
to  prepare  the  individual  to  take  some  position  in 
the  industrial  machine.  The  child,  plastic  and 
mobile  to  the  minds  of  his  elders,  does  not  rebel 
against  the  necessity  placed  upon  him,  but  obediently 
takes  up  his  burden  of  labor  (for  to  learn  is  labor); 
and  he  would  continue  to  follow  the  task  of  learning, 
and  pass  from  grade  to  grade,  through  educational, 
industrial,  and  administrative  system,  without 
thought  that  it  could  be  different,  were  he  taught 
in  childhood  that  such  was  to  be  his  life  work,  and 


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that  along  his  chosen  path  he  must  erect  his  super- 
structure of  knowledge  and  individuality. 

We  find,  on  analysis  of  our  educational  system,  that 
advancement  of  the  individual  from  kindergarten 
to  primary,  primary  to  grammar,  grammar  to  high, 
and  from  high  school  to  college,  is  all  dependent 
upon  intellectual  standards;  that  he  can  pass  from 
grade  to  grade  only  as  he  attains  that  standard 
required  at  each  forward  step.  It  will  also  be  found 
that  all  children  do  not  advance  with  the  same 
rapidity,  that  many  will  absorb  knowledge  and 
progress  much  faster  than  others.  For  this  reason 
no  system  can  be  just  that  allows  age  to  enter  into 
the  question  of  promotion.  An  established  in- 
tellectual requirement  should  be  the  only  standard 
of  promotion;  but  that  standard  should  be  based 
on  daily,  weekly,  or  monthly  reports,  averaged  over 
a  period  of  time,  rather  than  a  superficial  entrance 
examination  which  at  best  can  only  touch  upon 
points  of  ground  covered,  and  is  not  a  fair  basis 
by  which  to  determine  the  intellectual  qualifica- 
tions of  the  individual.  Such  examination  is  un- 
just and  arbitrary,  and  destroys  the  basis  of  equity 
for  which  we  are  striving. 


136  ''WORLD  CORPORATION" 

A  child  of  to-day,  upon  entrance  to  school,  finds 
himself  in  an  atmosphere  of  competition, — not 
competition  for  wealth  such  as  is  encountered  later 
in  life,  when  every  evil  passion  is  brought  to  the 
surface,  but  competition  for  knowledge  which  brings 
out  all  the  nobler  qualities  of  mind.  To  stand  at 
the  head  of  his  class,  to  receive  that  legitimate 
praise  and  homage  due  to  ambition,  application, 
and  success,  is  the  incentive  to  all  effort.  And,  if 
the  educational  stage  were  to  merge  impercept- 
ibly into  the  industrial  without  jar  or  break,  no 
other  incentive  to  further  advancement  could  be 
stronger  than  this  natural  ambition  to  excel  and  to 
acquire  knowledge. 

That  man  is  naturally  ambitious  and  progressive 
is  demonstrated  by  the  child,  who,  at  school,  has  no 
incentive  to  ambition  except  that  which  is  based  on 
intelligence.  School  is  preparatory  to  industry, 
and  by  every  law  of  equity  and  economic  law  of 
progress  should  be  an  integral  part  thereof.  If 
this  were  so,  the  individual  at  the  close  of  his  pre- 
paratory period  of  learning  would  merge  into  the 
first  grades  of  industry,  which  would  be  only  a 
step  higher  in  learning;   and  from  this  position  he 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  137 

would  continue  along  his  channel  of  inclination 
without  hindrance  from  others,  being  advanced 
from  time  to  time  to  higher  grades  of  industry 
upon  his  own  record  and  qualifications.  It  would 
all  be  education,  all  be  a  part  of  the  school  of  life. 

Though  education  is  a  preparatory  step  to  in- 
dustry under  our  present  system,  we  find  no  co- 
operation or  physical  connection  between  the  two. 
As  a  result,  a  break  comes  between  education  and 
industry,  and  in  most  instances  the  prepared  fitness 
of  the  individual  for  advancement  along  a  path  of 
inclination  is  lost,  because  of  lack  of  opportunity. 
After  years  of  preparatory  work  and  study  he  finds 
himself  aimlessly  cast  adrift  and  forced  to  struggle 
for  existence.  The  ambition  that  carried  him 
through  school  must  now  give  way  to  ambition 
to  make  money.  Very  few  are  so  situated  on 
leaving  school  or  college  that  they  can  choose  their 
life  work.  By  far  the  greater  number  find  necessity 
their  taskmaster,  and  are  obliged  to  take  up  any 
kind  of  work  that  offers.  The  education  they 
have  received  is  of  value  to  them  under  any  circum- 
stances, but  its  great  value  is  lost  from  lack  of  oppor- 
tunity to  use  it.     Natural  genius  and  ambition  is 


138  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

crushed  and  smothered  in  the  struggle,  and  the  world 
of  progress  and  mankind  is  the  loser,  the  loss  falling 
with  greatest  force  on  the  nation,  and,  secondly,  on 
the  individual. 

Industry  and  Government  should  be  higher  edu- 
cational planes,  and  it  should  be  possible  for  the 
individual  to  advance  by  successive  steps  from  the 
lowest  to  the  very  topmost  round  of  life's  ladder, 
where  he  would  have  earned  the  right  to  be  one  of 
the  administrative  and  governing  body  of  "World 
Corporation." 

Under  a  system  of  competition  for  wealth,  selfish- 
ness is  born;  for  material  wealth  is  not  divisible 
without  loss.  But  knowledge  is  divisible  to  in- 
finity, and  suffers  no  loss;  and  the  giver  is  made 
richer,  for  it  returns  to  him  increased  a  thousand -fold. 
Wealth  is  accumulated  at  the  expense  of  human 
misery  and  suffering.  The  attainment  of  knowledge 
deprives  no  one  of  individual  rights  or  happiness. 
Under  "World  Corporation"  the  whole  brain 
power  of  the  people,  instead  of  being  concerned 
in  the  struggle  for  wealth,  would  be  turned 
as  by  magic  into  the  channels  of  scientific  prog- 
ress.    It  is  impossible  for  the  imagination    to  con- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  139 

ceive  what   a  power  for  good    this    change    would 
mean. 

Knowledge  is  infinite  in  its  power  to  make  men 
happy,  infinite  in  its  possibiHties  to  guard  against 
the  ills  of  mind  and  body,  infinite  in  its  justice,  is 
the  soul  of  truth  and  the  essence  of  individuality 
that  remains  with  us  here  and  hereafter.     It  is  the 

GREATEST  ASSET  OF  ANY  NATION  AND  PAYS  THE 
LARGEST  DIVIDENDS. 


INDUSTRY  A  MACHINE. 

Very  few  appreciate  or  understand  the  signifi- 
cance of  those  oft-repeated  words,  ''Machinery 
OF  Industry."  They  fail  to  grasp  the  fact  that 
industry  as  a  whole  throughout  the  world  is  one 
vast  mechanism;  that  its  operation  requires  all 
the  world's  governments,  all  the  armies  and  navies 
of  the  world,  all  the  lawyers,  insurance  companies, 
and  financial  systems,  all  the  mills,  workshops, 
stores,  brokers,  agents,  speculators,  and  all  the 
transportation  systems;  all  the  scattered  cities, 
villages  and  farms;  and  every  man,  woman  and 
child,  either  as  working  parts,  consumers  of  products, 
or  both.  And  there  are  fewer  still  who  stop  to  reason 
on  the  overhead  charges  of  our  industrial  machine, 
the  brain  and  manual  labor  which  is  absolute  waste, 
and  must  be  added  to  necessary  industry  and  its 
products.  This  handicap  of  life  with  which  our 
whole  system  is  loaded  down,  we  carry  on  our  back 
as  a  burden  and  tax  simply  because  we  believe  in 
the  individual  competitive  system. 

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''WORLD  CORPORATION''  141 

The  real  purpose  of  the  machine  of  industry  is  to 
supply  the  necessities  of  life,  and  those  things  and 
means  necessary  to  our  progress  and  happiness. 
Those  industries  which  do  not  contribute  to  these 
ends  are  waste,  and  are  referred  to  in  these  articles 
as  tributary  industries,  meaning  industries  that 
have  reason  for  existence  under  our  competitive  sys- 
tem, but  no  reason  for  existence  under  a  corporate 
system. 

The  construction  of  the  World  Industrial  Machine 
should  be  founded  upon  the  same  Economic  Law 
as  underlies  the  construction  of  any  individual  part. 
That  is  to  say,  we  should  apply  the  same  cor- 
porate INTELLIGENCE  IN  THE  ARRANGEMENT  OF 
CITIES  AND  TOWNS  IN  THEIR  ECONOMIC  RELATION 
TO  PRODUCTION  AND  DISTRIBUTION  AS  THE  INDI- 
VIDUAL DOES  IN  THE  ECONOMIC  ARRANGEMENT  OF  THE 
DIFFERENT  DEPARTMENTS  OF  A  MANUFACTURING 
PLANT. 

When  we  think  of  a  machine,  we  have  in  mind  a 
mechanism  for  accomplishing  certain  results,  and 
a  machine  is  not  considered  perfect  unless  it  is 
stripped  to  the  fewest  parts  and  reduced  to  most 
economical   arrangement  for  the  purpose  in   view. 


142  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

If  we  look  upon  industry  in  the  aggregate  as  a  single 
machine,  we  must,  in  order  to  arrive  at  best  results, 
eliminate  from  its  mechanism  all  those  parts  and 
industries  that  are  not  directly  concerned  in  sup- 
plying the  individual  and  collective  wants  of  the 
people.  This  would  mean  the  elimination  of  the 
army  and  navy,  and  all  industries  tributary  thereto, 
and  the  turning  of  the  brain  and  manual  labor  now 
consumed  by  these  parts  into  productive  channels. 
Instead  of  building  several  hundred  million  dollars' 
worth  of  battleships,  we  would  turn  the  brain  and 
manual  labor  used  in  their  production,  and  the  brain 
and  manual  labor  of  all  those  who  directly  or  in- 
directly get  their  living  from  the  profession  of  war, 
into  necessary  avenues  of  industry.  The  army 
and  navy  are  a  burden  and  a  tax  which,  if  turned 
into  an  asset,  would  make  every  individual  in  America 
independent. 

The  building  of  a  scientific  industrial  machine 
would  also  mean  the  turning  of  all  lawyers,  bank- 
ers, brokers,  commission  merchants,  wholesale  mer- 
chants, retail  merchants,  and  all  those  employed 
in  insurance  companies  of  every  kind  and  nature, 
into  productive   channels.     These   are   only   a  few 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  143 

instances  of  useless  mechanism  and  waste  of  brain 
and  manual  labor,  necessary  to  our  present  system, 
which  would  have  no  place  in  "World  Corpora- 
tion." 

We  have  not  considered  the  question  of  rearrange- 
ment of  the  machine  of  industry  which  will  follow 
after  useless  industries  and  parts  have  been  elim- 
inated. This  rearrangement  will  mean  wiping  out 
and  blotting  off  the  map  50,000  cities,  towns,  and 
villages  in  the  United  States,  and  the  building  of 
one  great  central  Metropolis;  for  under  Corporation 
the  same  Economic  Law  of  centralization  will  apply 
to  scattered  cities  and  towns,  as  applies  to  the  cen- 
tralization of  scattered  parts  of  a  competitive  in- 
dustry when  brought  under  corporate  control. 
Man  cannot  obstruct  this  law.  There  can 
never  be  any  waste  in  following  Economic  Law. 
The  abandonment  of  a  whole  city  by  force  of  this 
law  must  be  a  gain,  for  of  necessity  something 
better  and  more  economical  will  take  its  place. 
And,  reasoning  further,  the  abandonment  of  50,000 
cities,  towns,  and  villages  can  only  be  brought  about 
by  the  substitution  of  something  better,  as  was  the 
case  with  the  centralization  of  the  steel  industry. 


146  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

The  building  of  a  new  World  Machine  of  Industry 
also  means  the  reclamation  of  all  lands  by  the  people 
by  conversion  or  purchase,  the  elimination  of  seven 
million  individual  farms,  and  the  scientific  exploita- 
tion of  the  field  of  raw  production.  It  means  the 
building  of  a  perfect  city  to  be  projected,  and  designed 
in  accord  with  up-to-date  ideas  and  most  advanced 
knowledge,  by  the  co-operation  of  the  people,  as 
they  would  co-operate  in  planning  and  forwarding 
a  World's  Fair.  From  this  great  city  the  Corpor- 
ate Mind  of  the  people  will  control,  direct,  and 
manage  the  whole  industrial  field  of  the  world. 
They  will  know  every  acre  of  ground  and  for  what 
purpose  it  can  best  be  adapted  or  used,  and  will 
direct  all  manufacturing  and  all  labor. 

This  is  a  strictly  business  view  of  a  mathematical 
business  proposition  and  should  be  interesting  to 
every  man,  woman,  and  child  in  the  world;  for  a 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  field  of  raw  pro- 
duction by  a  Corporate  Mind  is  absolutely  necessary 
if  we  desire  to  arrive  at  greatest  economy  in  the 
production  and  distribution  of  products. 

As  farming  is  forwarded  to-day,  it  is  a  cumber- 
some  go-as-you-please    mechanism.      Seven    million 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  147 

farmers  are  raising  anything  they  please  without  any 
knowledge  as  to  how  much  of  any  particular  product 
is  being  produced  by  others.  Under  these  conditions 
it  is  impossible  to  devise  any  plan  whereby  supply 
and  demand  for  products  can  be  balanced.  About 
one  out  of  fifty  farmers,  on  an  average,  is  intelli- 
gent and  progressive  as  far  as  our  competitive 
system  will  allow.  The  rest  have  no  thought  of 
progress.  They  plant  any  old  seed  in  any  old  way, 
without  thought  of  improvement  of  quality,  and 
plant  in  any  soil  without  considering  its  adapta- 
bility to  the  product  to  be  raised;  and  the  people 
are  dependent  on  this  unscientific,  uneducated  mass 
for  the  food  they  eat.  Individually  farmers  make 
little  progress,  and,  because  of  our  competitive 
system  where  there  is  no  co-operation,  the  adoption 
or  application  of  progressive  ideas  is  slow.  Under 
"World  Corporation"  intelligence  and  scientific 
knowledge  will  be  planted  with  every  seed,  and 
improvements  in  methods,  machinery,  and  products, 
will  find  instant  adoption  throughout  the  whole 
world  system. 

In  looking  over  the  Machine  of  Industry,  we  find 
individual   machines  like  the  plough,   the  printing 


148  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

press,  the  lathe,  the  engine,  the  railroad  trains,  etc., 
are  all  parts  of  the  Great  World  Machine.  We  find 
buildings,  ofiices,  manufactories,  stores,  homes,  and 
public  buildings  all  parts  of  the  machine.  They 
each  have  a  purpose  in  this  great  mechanism.  We 
find  that  buildings  in  which  manufacturing  is  car- 
ried on  are  economical  or  extravagant,  depending 
upon  their  adaptability  in  structure  to  the  purpose 
in  view,  the  arrangement  of  the  machinery  they 
contain,  and  their  relation  to  the  transportation 
system,  and  to  the  source  of  supply  of  raw  materials 
used.  The  laborers  are  all  parts  of  this  machine, 
as  are  the  foremen,  superintendents,  and  proprietors. 
We  find  these  buildings  with  their  human  parts 
and  machinery  connected  by  roads,  railroads,  water- 
ways, or  other  means  of  transportation  with  other 
parts  of  the  machine,  therefore  all  these  connecting 
links  are  parts  of  the  machine;  and  so  we  could 
continue,  until  it  would  be  shown  that  there  is 
no  separate  part,  either  animate  or  inanimate,  in 
the  whole  world  industrial  system. 

Thus  are  connected  in  one  mechanism  all  the 
cities,  towns,  and  villages;  all  the  buildings  they 
contain,  no   matter   for   what   purposes  used;     all 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  149 


the  contents  of  these  buildings,  whether  goods  or 
machinery;  all  the  farms;  all  the  individuals,  and 
all  that  constitutes  the  environment  of  man. 

Yes,  Industry  is  one  vast  mechanism,  but  it  has 
NO  GUIDING  INTELLIGENCE,  other  than  the  divided  in- 
telligences of  ninety  million  individuals  who  are  in 
competition  and  at  war  with  each  other.     For  this 
reason  there  is  no  unity  of  purpose  in  the  building 
of  cities,  which  are  ugly  and  lacking  in  beauty  of 
environment.     There    is    no    co-operation    in    the 
location  and  arrangement  of  manufacturing  plants, 
or  in  the  arrangement,  number,  and  disposition  of 
cities  and  towns  for  the  purpose  of  securing  greatest 
economy  and  maximum  results  from  labor  expended. 
The  result  is  a  system  of  distribution  and  redistri- 
bution of  products   between  cities  and  towns  and 
seven  million  farmers  that  makes  the  map  of  the 
United  States  a  network  of  lines  at  cross  purposes, 
that  no  mind  can  follow  or  understand. 

Our  government  is  the  only  co-operative  part  of 
our  industrial  machine,  but  it  takes  no  part  in 
organization  of  industry  or  in  directing  industrial 
efiFort.  It  stands  aloof  and  lets  millions  of  individual 
parts  fight  and  wrangle  and  quarrel  over  the  pro- 


150  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

duction  of  milk,  sugar,  salt,  pepper,  oranges,  grapes, 
potatoes,  wheat,  cotton,  vinegar,  shoes,  clothing, 
and  the  thousands  of  other  necessary  things  which 
could  be  produced  better  and  far  more  economi- 
cally, if  the  machine  were  a  comprehensive  mech- 
anism under  corporate  control.  In  dealing  with 
things,  we  are  dealing  with  mechanics  and  mathe- 
matics. There  is  no  mystery  about  it,  yet  our 
cut-throat  system  of  competition  is  considered  pro- 
gressive, that  it  promotes  progress. 

Under  our  competitive  system  the  machine  of 
industry  is  intricate  and  loaded  down  with  millions 
of  unnecessary  parts,  beyond  the  comprehension  of 
man  or  government.  It  is  a  runaway  mechanism, 
with  no  brain  at  the  throttle.  Under  "World 
Corporation"  the  machine  will  be  comprehensive, 
understood  in  all  its  parts,  and  under  perfect  control. 
Every  part  will  be  designed  to  fulfil  a  predetermined 
purpose,  and  only  such  mechanism  will  enter  into 
its  construction  as  is  necessary  to  the  end  in  view. 
The  Corporate  Mind,  combining  all  individual 
minds  in  every  department  of  knowledge,  will 
consider  and  pass  upon  ideas  that  are  the  ad- 
vanced thought  of  specialists  and  scientists.    The 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  151 

needs  of  a  great  population  will  be  uppermost  in  The 
Corporate  Mind,  and  the  machine  will  take  form 
and  grow.  Such  a  machine  and  such  a  civilization 
can  only  be  grasped  in  a  crude  way  by  the  in- 
dividual.    The  real  machine,  the  materialized 

EMBODIMENT  OF  MILLIONS  OF  MINDS,  CENTRALIZED 
AND  WORKING  IN  HARMONY,  WILL  BE  SO  WONDER- 
FUL AND  SO  BEAUTIFUL  IN  ITS  MECHANISM  THAT 
ONLY  ITS  REALIZATION  CAN  BRING  IT  WITHIN  RANGE 
OF  OUR  COMPREHENSION. 

To-morrow  if  war  were  declared  between  the 
United  States  and  any  great  foreign  nation,  millions 
of  men  would  offer  their  services  and  sacrifice  fort- 
unes and  lives.  Why  should  not  this  same  spirit 
prevail  should  the  people  call  for  these  same  men, 
for  the  purpose  of  building  a  new  industrial  machine? 
The  first  would  mean  war,  destruction,  and  loss  of 
life.  The  second  would  mean  peace,  construction, 
and  the  birth  of  a  new  civilization.  One  would 
Destroy, — the  other  would  Build.  One  would  cost 
as  much  as  the  other,  and  in  either  case  the  people 
would  have  to  pay  the  price. 


PROGRESS  DEPENDENT  ON  BIRTH   OF 

IDEAS. 

Improvement  of  the  industrial  machine,  in 
whole  or  in  part,  or  improvement  in  products, 
is  separate  and  distinct  from  the  brain  and  manual 
labor  involved  in  a  machine's  operation,  or  labor 
involved  in  production  and  distribution  of  products. 
Improvement  means  to  change  to  something 
better;  that  is  to  say,  to  improve  the  machinery 
or  products  of  industry  in  some  direction.  This 
requires  individual  thought,  reason,  concentration, 
and  study.  The  picture  of  the  artist  finds  expression 
in  his  soul  before  he  puts  it  on  the  canvas,  the  archi- 
tect sees  his  building  in  his  mind's  eye  before  he 
starts  on  his  plans.  Putting  the  eye  near  the  point 
of  a  sewing  machine  needle  was  the  birth  of  an  idea 
in  the  mind  of  Elias  Howe.  The  steam  engine 
was  an  idea  born  in  the  brain  of  Watts.  The  cotton 
gin  was  bom  in  the  brain  of  Whitney.  The  in- 
candescent lamp,  in  the  brain  of  Edison;   the  tele- 

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''WORLD  CORPORATION''  153 

phone  in  the  brain  of  Bell.  In  fact,  ideas  that 
change  things  from  what  they  are  to  something 
better,  is  progress.    Ideas  must  be,  and  are,  first 

BORN  IN  THE  INDIVIDUAL  BRAIN,  AND  ARE  SEPARATE 
AND  APART  FROM  THE  MECHANICAL  BRAIN  AND 
MANUAL  LABOR  INVOLVED  IN  OPERATING  A  MACHINE, 
OR  PRODUCING  AND  DISTRIBUTING  PRODUCTS,  OR 
DOING  MENTAL  OR  MANUAL  LABOR  WHICH  IS  A  PART 

OF  KNOWLEDGE.  No  stcp  has  cvcr  been  made  in 
the  material  progress  of  man,  NOT  ONE,  except 
it  first  had  birth  as  an  idea  in  an  individual  brain. 

If  individual  minds  should  cease  to  give  birth  to 
ideas  of  improvement  or  discovery,  the  progress  of 
man  would  cease.  We  might  still  continue  to  op- 
erate the  machine  of  industry  on  a  basis  of  present 
knowledge,  but  that  would  be  all  we  could  do. 
A  man  might  operate  a  dynamo,  a  lathe,  a  printing- 
press,  a  rolling  mill,  or  be  a  superintendent  of  a 
mill,  shop,  factory,  farm,  or  railroad,  yet  never  give 
birth  to  an  idea  of  improvement  of  the  machine  or 
products  produced.  In  his  position  he  is  an  in- 
tellectual mechanical  part  of  the  machine:  he  ful- 
fils a  necessary  purpose,  which,  as  far  as  his  labor  is 
concerned,  is  mechanical  in  use  of  both  brain  and 


154  "WORLD  CORPORATION" 

muscle.  He  might  be  displaced  any  day  as  a  part 
of  the  operating  mechanism  by  the  birth  of  an  idea 
in  the  mind  of  some  individual,  which  would  so 
improve  the  machine  that  the  man  would  no  longer 
be  required. 

A  man  might  feed  a  printing-press  all  his  life 
and  never  give  thought  to  its  improvement.  He 
would  expend  brain  and  muscular  labor  all  this 
time,  but  he  would  only  be  a  necessary  mechanical 
part  in  the  machine's  operation.  On  the  other 
hand,  some  individual  might  be  brought  in  contact 
with  this  printing-press  and  almost  instantly  devise 
a  feeding  mechanism  that  would  do  away  with  the 
services  of  the  man.  This  would  represent  the 
birth  of  an  idea,  this  would  be  improvement, 
this  would  be  progress. 

Again,  let  us  take  as  an  example  a  large  modern 
shoe  factory,  with  its  hundreds  of  employees  and  its 
numerous,  wonderfully  ingenious  machines.  This 
factory  is  turning  out  thousands  of  pairs  of  shoes  per 
day,  and  they  are  of  many  styles,  various  sizes,  and 
of  different  materials.  The  production  of  these 
shoes  from  day  to  day,  from  month  to  month,  and 
from  year  to  year,  is  simply  a  mechanical  and  mathe- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  155 

matical  proposition.  In  other  words,  the  proposi- 
tion involves  only  the  use  of  knowledge  that  we  have, 
which  has  been  acquired  through  birth  of  ideas  in 
individual  minds,  covering  a  long  period  of  time, 
and  which  have  found  embodiment  in  the  wonderful 
machines,  the  beautiful  leathers  used,  the  styles  that 
have  been  designed,  and  in  the  intelligence  of  the 
management  and  the  employees  who  are  the  in- 
tellectual mechanical  parts  of  this  factory.  If 
in  this  particular  shoe  factory  no  further  ideas  were 
forthcoming,  progress  would  cease:  they  could  keep 
on  making  the  same  kind  of  shoes  in  the  same  way, 
and  utilize  the  knowledge  they  have  in  the  machine's 
operation,  but  no  progress  would  be  made.  What 
applies  to  the  manufacture  of  shoes  applies  to  every 
industry  in  the  world.  Progress  is  separate  and 
apart  from  the  brain  and  manual  labor  necessary 
to  a  machine's  operation:  it  has  a  domain  of  its 
own,  and  its  throne  is  the  reasoning  intelligence 
which  gives  birth  to  ideas  resulting  in  improvement 
in  machinery  or  products,  economic  changes  in 
process  or  system,  or  new  discoveries  of  benefit 
to  man.  This  is  progress.  As  soon  as  an  idea  is 
embodied   in   our   industrial   system   it   becomes   a 


156  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

part  of  it.  If  it  is  an  economic  change  in  machinery 
or  the  improvement  of  a  product,  its  reproduc- 
tion IS  A  MECHANICAL  OPERATION  AND  NOTHING  CAN 
BE  GAINED  BY  A  NUMBER  OF  INDIVIDUALS  COMPETING 

TO  PRODUCE  IT.  Individuals  fighting  to  do  the  same 
thing  in  opposition  to  each  other  can  never  produce 
as  good  a  product,  or  so  cheaply,  as  these  same 
individuals  combined  together  in  harmonious  co- 
operation.    Competition  adds  to  cost,  and  the 

PEOPLE   AS   A    WHOLE    ARE    THE    LOSERS. 

The  great  blunder  of  all  the  centuries  of  civiliza- 
tion has  been  the  persistent  belief  that  progress 
depended  on  competition  in  the  production  and  dis- 
tribution of  products;  and  to-day  a  large  per- 
centage of  the  people  still  believe  in  that  system, 
even  in  the  face  of  the  rapid  elimination  of  competi- 
tion by  corporation. 


NINETY  PER   CENT.   WASTE. 

The  building  of  a  machine  of  production  and 
distribution  by  ninety  milHon  people  who  are  work- 
ing independently  and  in  competition  with  each 
other,  and  the  building  of  a  machine  for  the  same 
purpose  by  the  same  people  who  are  incorporated 
in  one  body  with  one  corporate  mind,  are  two 
widely  different  propositions.  The  difference  be- 
tween THE  TWO  systems  REPRESENTS  NINETY  PER 
CENT.  WASTE  UNDER  COMPETITION,  AND  THE  SAVING 
OF  THAT   WASTE  AND   TURNING   IT   INTO   NINETY   PER 

CENT.  GAIN  UNDER  CORPORATION.  This  is  a  general 
way  of  stating  a  fact  than  can  be  demonstrated 
mathematically.  Under  corporation  we  would  pro- 
gress to  a  greater  extent  in  one  year  than  we  do 
now  in  ten  years  under  competition;  and,  if 
"World  Corporation,"  or  a  similar  corporation, 
were  to  receive  the  support  of  the  people,  fully  fifty 
per  cent,  of  those  now  living  would  see  this  perfect 
system  in  actual  operation. 

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158  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

In  order  to  more  readily  understand  the  state- 
ment that  ninety  per  cent,  is  wasted,  I  will  enumerate 
some  of  the  principal  industries  that  are  tributary 
to  our  competitive  system,  but  would  have  no  rep- 
resentation in  a  "World  Corporate  System." 

Cost  of  maintaining  and  keeping  in  repair  50,000 
cities,  towns,  and  villages. 

Cost  of  National  Government. 

Cost  of  State  Government. 

Cost  of  Municipal  Government. 

Cost  of  Town  and  County  Government. 

Cost  of  City  and  Town  Development  and  Main- 
tenance. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Army. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Navy. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Lawyers. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Speculators  and  Brokers. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Insurance  Companies. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Financial  System. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Political  Parties. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Agents. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Commission  Merchants. 

Cost  of  Maintaining  Wholesale  Merchants. 


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Cost  of  Maintaining  Retail  Store  Keepers. 
Cost  of  Maintaining  Advertising. 

Most  of  these  and  hundreds  of  other  industries 
are  now  parts  of  our  industrial  system  and  only 
TRIBUTARY  TO  INDUSTRY.  They  neither  produce  nor 
distribute  any  product,  but  they  all  must  live  and 
are  an  overhead  burden  which  must  be  added  to 
cost  of  products.  It  must  be  understood  that  wives 
and  children  of  those  employed  in  any  tributary 
industry  must  be  added  to  the  aggregate,  as  they 
are  maintained  and  supported  out  of  money  sup- 
plied in  maintenance  of  these  industries. 


FIRE  INSURANCE  WASTE. 

Fire  Insurance  is  a  distinct  product  of  competition 
between  individuals  in  the  production  and  distri- 
bution of  products.  Under  our  competitive  system 
business  is  divided  and  sub-divided  into  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  parts,  and  these  separate  parts  in 
the  form  of  stores  and  stocks  of  goods,  houses,  and 
personal  effects  are,  in  the  majority  of  cases,  the 
capital  and   stock  in   trade   of   the   individual.     If 


160  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

it  burns  up,  lie  is  done  for.  That  which  has  been 
the  accumulation  of  years  of  privation  and  toil 
is  lost  in  a  moment.  To  provide  against  this,  fire 
insurance  was  devised,  whereby  corporations  were 
organized  for  the  purpose  of  taking  this  risk  from 
the  shoulders  of  the  individual  for  a  consideration. 
As  a  result  a  great  tributary  industry  has  sprung 
into  existence,  supporting  thousands  upon  thou- 
sands of  men  and  their  families,  demanding  the 
construction  and  occupation  of  enormous  buildings 
in  all  of  our  cities.  Fire  Insurance  covers  only  one 
form  of  disaster,  but  there  are  others  which  cover 
almost  every  form  of  possible  catastrophe  to  prop- 
erty. No  one  can  for  a  moment  aflSrm  that  any 
one  connected  with  the  insurance  system  is  a  pro- 
ducer. 

A  corporate  system  would  have  no  insurance  sys- 
tem, and  the  labor  of  those  now  employed  in  this 
industry  would  be  turned  into  productive  channels. 
This  is  an  item  of  saving  that  will  apply  in  liquidat- 
ing the  claim  that  ninety  per  cent,  of  brain  and 
manual  labor  is  wasted  under  our  present  system. 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  161 


LIFE  INSURANCE. 

Life  Insurance  is  a  form  of  protection  which  a  man 
secures  to  protect  his  family  and  leave  them  pro- 
vided for  in  event  of  his  death.     This  is  wide-spread 
and  almost  universal,  and  the  finest  office  buildings 
in  the  cities  of  the  world  are  built  from  the  profits 
of  life  insurance  and   are  largely  occupied  by  life 
insurance  companies.     Nearly  ten  billions  of  dol- 
lars of  life  insurance  was  in  force  in  the  United 
States  in  1900;  and  the  cost  to  maintain,  expenses 
and    dividends    paid,    amounted    to    two    hundred 
million  dollars,  all  of  which  represents  waste  brain 
and  manual  labor,  for  under  a   corporate   system 
life  insurance  would  not  be  necessary. 

LAW. 

Law  is  a  necessary  factor  of  a  competitive  system. 
If  the  production  and  distribution  of  products  and 
the  wealth  derived  therefrom  is  made  a  basis  of 
competition  between  individuals  of  a  community 
and  the  individual  can  have  all  the  wealth  he  may 
acquire,    law    immediately    springs    into    existence 


162  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

to  protect  him  in  these  rights.  The  constitution 
of  a  nation  becomes  the  foundation  of  the  system 
and  the  final  court  of  appeal.  From  constitutional 
law,  as  a  foundation,  springs  the  endless  system  of 
laws  which  pertain  to  property  and  the  rights  of 
individuals,  differing  more  or  less  in  different  states 
and  territories,  but  all  subject  to  constitutional  law. 

Its  birth,  life,  and  very  existence  depend  upon 
chaos, — the  more  confusion,  the  more  law;  the  more 
order,  the  less  law.  The  United  States  Steel  Cor- 
poration has  no  use  for  lawyers  within  the  corpora- 
tion. It  is  only  when  it  comes  in  contact  with  and 
finds  itself  obliged  to  adjust  itself  to  the  chaos 
around  it,  that  it  requires  the  use  of  a  lawyer. 

"  World  Corporation  "  will  not  require  the 
services  of  a  single  lawyer.  Therefore,  the  brains, 
intelligence,  and  labor  of  these  men  will  be  turned 
into  productive  channels. 

POLITICS. 

So-called  politics  and  government,  national,  state, 
and  municipal  are  a  part  of  the  tributary  system. 
Now  think  for  a  moment  and  grasp,  if  you  can,  the 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  163 

amount  of  brain  and  intelligence  that  is  wasted  in 
these  channels.  None  of  these  would  have  any 
place  in  a  corporate  system.  Government  and  poli- 
tics as  we  understand  them  would  be  wiped  out, 
and  the  board  of  control  would  constitute  both  in- 
dustrial and  governmental  management.  The  same 
loss  of  brain  and  manual  labor  that  is  lost  in  housing 
insurance  and  law  must  be  reckoned  with  in  cal- 
culating loss  by  reason  of  establishing  and  main- 
taining a  governmental  system. 

BANKING    AND   FINANCE. 

Banking  and  Finance  have  their  birth  and  being 
under  a  competitive  system.  They  have  come  into 
existence  to  facilitate  the  exchange  of  products  be- 
tween individuals  and  nations.  Such  a  system,  as 
understood  here,  would  have  no  place  under  a  cor- 
porate system. 

FIFTY   THOUSAND    CITIES    AND    TOWNS    VERSUS 
CORPORATION. 

Under  a  Corporate  System,  the  field  of  raw  pro- 
duction and  the  machine  of    industry  will  be  ex- 


164  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

ploited  and  operated  from  one  city  by  one  great 
Corporate  Mind.  This  Metropolis  will  be  a  per- 
fect automatic  mechanism  in  all  its  parts,  with 
its  millions  of  human  beings,  and  will  take  the 
place  of  our  scattered  plant  of  industry,  consisting 
of  fifty  thousand  cities,  towns,  and  villages,  and 
our  seven  million  farms.  Any  of  our  great  Cor- 
poration Managers  who  have  had  the  experience 
of  bringing  together  a  number  of  scattering  small 
competitive  plants  of  a  particular  industry,  and 
merging  them  into  one  large  perfect  mechanism, 
will  readily  understand  the  system  and  economy 
that  will  result  when  all  industry  is  centralized  and 
brought  under  the  comprehensive  grasp  of  a  Corpo- 
rate Mind.  Those  who  have  the  faculty  of  grasp- 
ing industry  as  a  whole  in  its  broad  meaning,  who 
understand  the  great  underlying  formulative  laws, 
and  can  watch  their  operation  under  the  separate 
conditions  of  competition  and  corporation,  will 
readily  see  two  pictures, — one,  the  scattered  and 
incomprehensive  plant  as  we  have  it.  This  is  a 
picture  of  Competition.  The  other  is  Corporation, 
— a  beautiful  picture  of  system  and  perfect  con- 
trol, where  every  part  is  connected  with  the  great 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  165 

Corporate  Mind  by  nerves  that  communicate  every 
heart-beat  and  every  emotion.  One  is  centraliza- 
tion of  wealth  into  individual  hands;  the  other, 
centralization  of  wealth  into  the  hands  of  the 
people.  Such  are  the  pictures  of  the  two  sys- 
tems, and  between  these  two  pictures  lies  the 
ninety  per  cent,   waste. 

If  Conservation  of  the  remnants  of  coal  and 
forest  lands  belonging  to  the  people  is  a  good  polit- 
ical move  by  Government  at  the  present  time, 
why  not  go  a  step  further  and  apply  Conservation 
to  all  Individual  and  National  resources  and  wealth, 
and  to  waste  of  Brain  and  Manual  energy?  Not  by 
legislation,  which  necessitates  so  much  loss  of  time 
in  education  of  the  people  politically,  but  by  the 
direct  method  proposed, — of  conversion  of  individ- 
ual wealth  into  Corporate  Wealth  by  "World 
Corporation." 


TRIBUTARY  INDUSTRIES. 

Ninety  per  cent,  of  all  brain  and  manual  labor 
is  wasted  in  arriving  at  results  under  our  system  of 
industry.  We  labor  and  think  ten  years  to  accom- 
plish that  which  should  be  done  in  one.  If  the 
average  working  years  of  man  are  forty  under  the 
present  system,  he  would  accomplish  as  much  in 
four  under  a  corporate  system. 

Looked  at  from  a  different  point  of  view.  If  we 
had  a  corporation  system  in  place  of  our  present 
system,  and  we  all  labored  as  much  as  we  do  now, 
the  production  of  those  things  which  contribute 
directly  to  man's  welfare  would  be  multiplied  ten 
times,  and  the  poorest  individual  in  the  world  would 
command  more  luxury  in  his  environment  than  can 
be  secured  by  the  wealthiest  individual  to-day. 
Why.f*  Simply  because  a  corporation  system  would 
do  away  with  tributary  labor  and  industries,  and  the 
ninety  per  cent,  wasted  would  be  made  productive. 

The  questions  might  be  asked:  "What  are  tribu- 

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''WORLD  CORPORATION''  167 

tary  industries?"  "Are  not  all  industries  necessary 
to  the  system?"  "Is  not  the  fact  that  so-called 
tributary  industries  flourish  and  prosper,  sufficient 
evidence  of  their  value  and  proof  of  their  being 
necessary?"  The  answer  to  these  questions  in 
brief  is  this :  There  is  something  radically  wrong  in 
the  fundamental  principles  of  a  machine  that  re- 
quires loading  down  with  parts  that  increase  the 
friction  and  cost  of  operation,  while  in  no  way  per- 
forming any  functional  part  in  the  production  and 
distribution  of  those  products  which  are  the  ostensi- 
ble purpose  of  the  machine. 

Thus,  if  we  could  dispense  with  the  armies  and 
navies  of  the  world,  and  all  those  dependent  upon  the 
armies  and  navies  for  support,  the  production  and 
distribution  of  necessary  products  (the  real  pur- 
pose of  the  industrial  machine)  would  not  be  reduced 
an  ounce.  Therefore  armies  and  navies  are  tribu- 
tary to  the  necessary  machine  of  industry,  and  are 
a  part  of  it;  but  they  perform  no  function  in  pro- 
duction and  distribution. 

The  burden  of  brain  and  manual  labor  they  neces- 
sitate is  lost  to  man,  and  the  cost  of  necessary  prod- 
ucts is  increased  the  equivalent  of  all  their  cost  of 


168  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

maintenance.  In  other  words,  armies  and  navies 
are  a  permanent  overhead  tax  or  burden  that  we 
carry  and  pay  for  in  sweat  of  labor.  At  least  any 
good  business  man  would  consider  it  a  tax  if  he 
were  compelled  to  surround  his  factory  with  an  army 
and  obliged  to  feed  and  clothe  them.  An  army  puts 
the  brakes  on  the  progress  of  any  nation  and  is  a 
handicap  in  the  race  with  other  nations.  If,  in 
addition  to  above,  we  could  dispense  with  all  those 
who  are  dependent  for  a  living  on  production  of 
army  accoutrements,  ammunition,  war  vessels,  guns, 
etc.,  we  would  not  reduce  the  production  of  nec- 
essary products  an  ounce.  If  we  could  dispense 
with  every  government  official  and  employee  of 
all  the  governments  of  the  world  and  every  poli- 
tician of  nations,  states,  and  municipalities  and  all 
dependent  upon  them  for  support,  we  would  still 
find  the  production  and  distribution  of  necessary 
products  had  not  been  reduced  an  ounce  or  dis- 
turbed in  the  slightest  degree. 

If  we  could  dispense  with  every  banker,  broker, 
and  commission  merchant  in  the  world,  and  their 
families  dependent  upon  them,  we  would  still  find 
production  and  distribution  had  not  been  affected. 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  169 

If  we  could  dispense  with  every  lawyer  and  all 
those  dependent  upon  them  for  support,  it  would 
not  reduce  the  production  and  distribution  of  prod- 
ucts. If  we  could  dispense  with  every  man,  woman, 
and  child  dependent  upon  any  kind  of  insurance 
industry  for  support,  no  effect  upon  production 
and  distribution  would  be  noted. 

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  tributary  industries 
of  competition,  only  a  very,  very  small  fraction 
of  the  total  sum  of  energy,  brains,  and  skill  that  is 
misdirected  and  lost  under  our  competitive  system, 
which  we  pay  for,  but  from  which  we  get  no  return. 

Tributary  industries  are  like  enormous  fungus 
growths  that  gradually  surround  and  destroy  the 
vital  functions  of  the  industrial  body:  they  are 
national  cancers  that  live  and  thrive  on  chaos  and 
competition.  To-day  these  growths  constitute  nine- 
tenths  of  the  industrial  mechanism.  They  are  a 
fixed  expense  on  necessary  products,  and  every  year 
sees  the  disease  increase.  This  is  why  necessary 
products  rise  in  value,  why  we  complain  of  hard 
times;  for,  as  tributary  industries  increase,  necessary 
products  must  carry  the  burden  of  cost.  Under  a 
corporate  system  the  cause  of  the  existence  of  tribu- 


170  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

tary  industries,  competition  and  disorganization 
will  disappear,  and  they  will  disappear  with  it.  If 
we  were  to  employ  ninety  per  cent,  of  all  labor  in 
building  a  Tower  of  Babel,  something  which  could 
have  no  earthly  use  or  purpose,  and  put  the  burden 
of  feeding,  clothing,  and  providing  for  the  whole 
population  upon  the  remaining  ten  per  cent.,  it 
would  not  be  more  foolish  than  to  keep  up  our 
present  system. 

It  should  be  plain  that  we  could  still  pro- 
duce AND  distribute  A  QUANTITY  OF  NECESSARY 
PRODUCTS,   EQUAL  TO  WHAT  IS  PRODUCED  NOW,  after 

dispensing  with  fully  ninety  per  cent,  of  the  popu- 
lation of  the  world,  and  that  the  remaining  ten  per 
cent,  would  have  the  actual  useful  wealth  of  the 
world  to  divide,  its  houses,  lands,  and  all  forms  of 
necessary  material  wealth,  provided  they  would 
incorporate.  But  we  are  not  aiming  to  dispense 
with  any  one:  we  want  them  all,  and  more.  We 
are  aiming  to  direct  the  full  hundred  per  cent,  of 
productive  energy,  so  that  it  will  count  for  collective 
wealth  and  happiness.  We  want  to  change  this 
ninety  per  cent,  from  an  army  of  civil  war  and  waste 
to  an  army  of  Corporation  and  Wealth.     "World 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  171 

Corporation"  will  not  only  increase  the  productive 
power  of  the  world  tenfold,  but  a  hundredfold;  for 
under  a  corporate  system  the  ninety  per  cent,  of 
loss  of  mind,  brain,  and  reasoning  power  which  is 
now  concerned  in  talking  money,  thinking  money, 
and  DREAMING  MONEY,  thereby  being  inoculated 
with  the  diseases  of  money,  crime,  worry,  selfish- 
ness, INHUMANITY,  and  BRUTISHNESS,  will  be  turned 
into  productive  channels  of  knowledge  and  industry. 
Instead  of  there  being  a  few  Edisons,  Bells,  Marconis, 
and  Wrights,  there  will  be  hundreds — yes,  thou- 
sands; and  we  will  advance  by  leaps  and  bounds, 
and  live  in  an  atmosphere  of  healthful  ambition 
and  happiness  ten  years  in  every  one.  Men  and 
women  who  are  satiated  with  wealth  and  realize 
the  helplessness  of  purchasing  true  happiness  with 
money,  can,  during  the  remaining  years  of  their 
life,  live  a  thousand  years  in  the  pleasure  that  will 
be  theirs  from  helping  humanity  to  attain  the  true 
system. 


POLITICS  IS  BUSINESS. 

Politics  is  business, — nothing  more, — and  poli- 
ticians are  individualists,  who  are  in  politics  to  make 
money  or  attain  through  public  life  power  or  social 
position. 

Disinterested  patriotism  is  a  fiction,  or  at  least 
so  small  a  percentage  enter  public  life  from  patriotic 
motives,  as  against  those  who  do  so  from  selfish 
motives,  that  it  is  not  worth  considering  in  balancing 
causes  and  effects  that  make  men  seek  public  life. 

Men  like  Abraham  Lincoln  are  so  few  and  far 
between  that  they  are  like  drops  of  spring  water 
in  an  ocean  of  corruption. 

The  Houses  of  Congress  and  officials  of  our  gov- 
ernment are  to  all  intents  and  purposes  a  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  United  States  Corporation,  who 
are  elected  by  the  stockholders — the  people  (only 
males  twenty-one  years  of  age  and  over  being  elig- 
ible)— for  the  purpose  of  managing  and  conducting 
public  business. 

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WORLD  CORPORATION"  173 


Looking  upon  National,  State,  and  Municipal 
government  from  this  point  of  view,  our  Nation  is 
A  Corporation,  and  each  voting  citizen  is  an  equal 
stockholder,  differing  from  individual  industrial  cor- 
porations, where  dollars  or  shares  of  stock  take 
the  place  of  individual  voting,  each  share  of  stock 
being  a  voting  unit. 

The  division  of  the  business  of  the  people  into  two 
great  factors — Government  Business,  conducted 
by  the  people  collectively  through  its  representatives, 
on  the  one  hand,  and  Industrial  Business,  con- 
ducted by  individuals  in  competition  with  each 
other,  on  the  other  hand— makes  it  impossible  to 
harmonize  the  energies  of  the  nation  as  a  whole; 
for  the  power  of  wealth  of  individual  industrial  in- 
terests is  constantly  brought  to  bear  at  all  elections, 
to  influence  the  returning  of  such  representatives  as 
are  favorable  to  capital.  And  labor  plays  into  the 
hands  of  capital  by  selling  its  vote  or  being  over- 
powered in  argument  and  reasoning.  As  a  result, 
representative  government  is  under  control  of  capital 
or  that  corrupt  element  termed  Bossism  which  seeks 
control  of  National,  State,  and  Municipal  affairs  for 
the  graft  that  is  possible.     The  people,  as  a  people,  do 


174  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

not  get  any  representation  whatsoever;  for  pol- 
iticians are  not  patriots  and  saints,  but  men  who 
make  the  nation's  business  their  business  and  are  in 
the  game  for  what  there  is  in  it  for  them — first,  last, 
and  all  the  time. 

The  question  arises  here.  Where  do  the  rights  of 
the  people  as  a  whole,  corporated  under  our  Govern- 
ment, begin  and  cease  in  the  field  of  industry,  and 
where  do  the  individual  rights  of  these  same  people 
in  competition  begin  and  cease? 

If  we  look  upon  the  Postal  System  as  legitimate 
Government  business,  where  do  we  draw  the  line 
of  demarkation  between  Postal  Business  and  the 
Telephone,  Telegraph,  Express,  Freight,  and  Rail- 
road business?  And,  if  reason  admits  the  right  of 
Government  to  own  and  forward  these  lines  of 
business,  where  do  we  draw  the  line  of  demarkation 
between  these  lines  of  business  and  those  businesses 
and  manufacturing  industries  which  contribute  all 
the  material  plant  necessary  to  the  conduct  and 
forwarding  of  these  businesses?  In  other  words,  if 
the  people  owned  and  conducted  the  railroads,  is 
there  any  reason  why  it  should  leave  the  building 
of  its  cars,  engines,  and  equipment  to  individuals? 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  175 

Should  it  not  enter  into  the  manufacturing  of  all  of 
its  equipment?  Cannot  the  people,  as  a  whole,  save 
the  individual  profit  by  doing  its  own  business? 

If  it  is  the  business  of  the  corporated  people, 
either  National  or  State,  to  project  and  develop 
great  irrigating  plans,  thereby  bringing  millions  of 
acres  in  the  domain  of  fertile  lands,  why  should 
they  as  a  corporated  people  be  so  unbusinesslike  as 
to  disregard  the  great  value  of  these  lands  to  them- 
selves and  give  them  away  to  Rail  Roads  or  dispose 
of  them  for  nothing  or  for  a  song  to  individuals? 
No  one  can  believe  that  the  nation  can  receive  the 
same  benefit  from  a  miscellaneous  rabble  of  incom- 
petent settlers  and  farmers,  who  are  given  these 
lands,  as  would  accrue  to  the  people  if  they  them- 
selves continued  the  good  work  of  ownership  by 
the  scientific  exploitation  and  development  of  these 
lands,  retaining  ownership  and  raising  crops  in  the 
name  of  the  people.  Can  the  people  individually 
deny  the  right  of  the  people  collectively  (corporated 
as  they  are  under  the  United  States  Government) 
to  do  as  they  think  best  with  what  they  own?  Are 
not  the  whole  people  greater  than  any  individual 
part  or  parts?     There  is  not  an  individual  in  any 


176  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

walk  of  life  who  can  draw  the  line  between  the 
rights  of  the  people  collectively  and  individually, — 
under  our  system  there  is  no  place  for  a  line.  The 
rights  of  the  people  are  first  in  every  case,  whether 
it  is  the  operation  of  the  railroads  of  the  United 
States  or  the  growing  of  potatoes.  The  only  ques- 
tion that  arises  is.  Can  the  people  as  a  whole  raise 
potatoes  better  and  more  economically  than  a  hun- 
dred thousand  individuals  on  the  competitive  plan.^ 
If  the  answer  is  in  favor  of  people  raising  their  own 
potatoes,  not  a  day  should  be  lost  by  the  people 
in  entering  into  the  business  of  raising  potatoes; 

AND  THIS  APPLIES  TO  ALL  PRODUCTION  AND  DISTRI- 
BUTION. 

The  most  serious  obstruction  to  material  progress 
is  our  present  Government  and  its  political  parties 
and  machinery,  acting  separate  and  apart  from  the 
industrial  machine,  and  presuming  to  dictate  to 
the  industrial  world  how  it  should  operate  its  machine 
and  the  path  it  should  follow. 

The  Government  is  not  in  touch  with  industrial 
progress  and  never  enacts  laws  coincident  with  in- 
dustrial needs;  and,  the  larger  the  machine  of  indus- 
try grows  and  the  more  intricate  its  mechanism  be- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  177 

comes,  the  more  diflScult  it  is  for  legislation  to  keep 
pace  with  its  needs. 

At  the  present  time  the  Government,  in  the  making 
of  laws,  is  hopelessly  in  the  rear  of  industrial  progress, 
and,  in  its  efforts  to  rise  to  the  situation,  its  ideas 
are  a  jumble  of  doubt,  fear,  and  incompetence;  and 
many  of  the  laws  which  are  on  the  statute  books 
are  an  evidence  of  these  facts,  for  they  are  obstruc- 
tive laws,  intended  to  check  the  natural  economic 
gravitation  of  industry  by  the  erection  of  legislative 
dams  enacted  simply  because  those  who  were  in- 
strumental in  their  enactment  were  not  business 
men,  and  did  not  appreciate  economic  gravitation. 
These  same  men  would  have  been  among  the  en- 
raged mob  who  destroyed  the  looms  in  an  English 
mill  less  than  a  hundred  years  ago. 

The  Sherman  Act  is  a  case  in  point, — a  criminal 
blunder  which  could  never  have  passed  to  enact- 
ment, had  the  representatives  of  the  people  been 
business  men.  Its  cost  to  progress  can  never  be 
estimated.  In  like  manner  Interstate  Commerce 
Laws  are  a  mistake,  for  they  complicate  and  disturb 
the  natural  flow  of  industry.  And  our  Tariff  Laws 
are  but  a  part  of  the  selfish  competitive  system  of 


178  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

Individualism  which  makes  enemies  of  the  peoples 
of  the  same  planet  and  the  same  ancestry.  Such 
lines  of  demarkation  and  barriers  of  caste  and  na- 
tionality could  not  be  possible  under  a  Corporate 
System. 

The  truth  is,  the  Republican  and  Democratic  ships 
are  manned  by  professional  politicians,  grafters  and 
thieves  to  whom  Captain  Kidd  and  his  pirate  crew 
were  saints  and  prophets  by  comparison,  and  are 
weighted  down  with  pre-Adamite  ideas  and  prece- 
dents and  the  fossil  remains  of  old  customs  and 
laws  that  have  made  men  slaves.  They  are  an- 
chored to  the  old  school  of  thought,  and  in  their 
gold  and  lace  of  pomp  and  ceremony  they  act  the 
Harlequin  part  of  civilizations  long  dead  and  buried. 
They  are  navigating  the  same  Sargossa  Sea  of 
Individual  Competition  that  has  been  the  grave  of 
every  nation,  and  are  hopelessly  adrift  among  the 
derelicts  and  wreckage  of  governments  that  have 
failed,  and  the  ninety  million  souls  on  board  are 
hypnotized  and  put  to  sleep  by  the  same  tune 
that  Nero  played  when  Rome  was  burning,  the 
siren  song  of  Individualism. 

Place-seekers  of  these  old  parties  are  not  business 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  179 

men,  except  as  representatives  of  individual  business 
interests  who  need  their  services  in  opposing  adverse 
legislation,  or  in  promotion  of  legislation  favorable 
to  class  interests.  They  have  no  conception  of  or 
interest  in  industry  in  its  broad  sense,  and  have  no 
thought  of  the  country's  good  or  the  people's  honor  in 
view  when  seeking  office.  Politics  with  them  is  busi- 
ness, a  means  to  personal  profit  for  themselves  and 
those  whom  they  represent.  It  is  competitive  in- 
dustrial individualism  at  the  foutain  head  of  power 
carried  to  its  logical  and  most  debasing  extreme. 

If  it  were  possible  to  compile  a  volume  of  names 
of  Municipal,  State,  and  National  political  betrayers 
of  the  people  (directly  or  indirectly,  for  the  accept- 
ing of  money  is  only  one  form  of  betrayal),  the 
volume  would  be  as  large  as  Webster's  Unabridged. 
Such  a  compilation  would  be  monumental  in  com- 
parison with  criminals  in  the  business  world,  and 
worse,  for  it  would  represent  betrayers  of  a  nation's 
confidence.  The  exposures  in  San  Francisco,  Minne- 
apolis, St.  Louis,  New  York,  Chicago,  Pittsburg,  Bos- 
ton, Philadelphia,  are  only  a  mere  tallow  dip  of  light 
in  a  wilderness  of  political  darkness  and  crime  that 
penetrates  to  every  corner  of  our  governmental  system. 


180  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

These  are  things  that  the  people  are  beginning 
to  know  and  understand.  Further,  they  begin  to 
realize  that  there  is  no  hope  of  relief  from  old 
parties  or  their  policies,  and  that  it  is  imprac- 
ticable to  launch  a  new  ship  and  put  the  same  crew 
on  board,  with  the  same  old  chart  and  compass, 
and  expect  them  to  steer  a  new  course. 

The  political  situation  at  the  present  time  is 
unique,  insomuch  that  there  has  probably  never 
been  a  period  in  our  history  when  there  was  such  a 
wide  divergence  of  opinion,  so  much  at  stake,  and 
so  small  a  peg  on  which  either  the  Republican  or 
Democratic  party  can  hang  an  issue.  They  are 
committed  to  ideas  which  they  must  uphold  and 
advocate,  and  these  ideas  are  not  in  harmony  with 
advanced  thought  or  present  Industrial  conditions. 
For  these  reasons  the  business  world  is  in  revolt, 
and  there  is  much  doubt  and  uncertainty  as  to  their 
future. 

If  competition  between  individuals  for  wealth  is 
right  (which  the  writer  disputes),  then  at  least  there 
should  be  some  co-ordination  of  parts  between 
Industry  and  Government,  whereby  right  conclu- 
sions could  be  arrived  at  and  be  acted  on  quickly. 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  181 

instead  of  this  antagonism  and  conflict  of  interests 
which  entails  so  much  litigation  between  Govern- 
ment and  Industry  with  its  enormous  cost  and  dis- 
turbance. 

If  industry  were  allowed  to  take  its  natural  course 
of  gravitation  to  more  economic  results  in  produc- 
tion and  distribution,  and  government  were  only 
to  co-operate  to  see  that  such  economic  results 
accrued  to  the  people  in  just  proportion  with  those 
who  brought  about  such  economies,  then  would  in- 
dustry throughout  the  United  States  quickly  cen- 
tralize both  industry  and  people  into  closer  and 
more  harmonious  relations.  But,  when  all  branches 
of  National,  State,  and  Municipal  Government  are 
in  the  hands  of  professional  politicians  who  look 
upon  politics  as  the  business  of  a  nation,  and  a 
legitimate  means  of  plundering  the  Treasury  of 
Industry,  instead  of  looking  upon  Production  and 
Distribution  as  the  legitimate  business  of  a  nation, 
then  Politics  and  Government  become  a  menace, 
a  stumbling-block  to  progress,  a  dangeroui,  dis- 
turbing element  of  industrial  life. 

The  Board  of  Directors  and  Officers  of  the  United 
States  Steel  Corporation  stand  in  the  same  relation 


182  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

to  their  stockholders  as  do  the  Houses  of  Congress 
(which  are  the  people's  Boards  of  Directors)  to  the 
people  of  the  United  States. 

In  the  case  of  the  United  States  Steel  Corpora- 
tion the  Board  of  Directors  is  in  touch  with  the 
corporate  needs,  and  acts  instantly,  and  for  the  good 
of  the  business. 

In  like  manner  the  Representatives  of  the  People 
in  Washington  should  make  it  their  business  to  un- 
derstand the  Machine  of  Industry  as  a  whole,  and 
minister  to  its  needs  quickly,  for  Industry  is  the 
business  of  this  nation,  not  Politics,  and  Politics  and 
Government,  as  a  part  of  the  business  world,  should 
adjust  itself  to  Industry,  and  not  compel  Industry  to 
adjust  itself  to  Politics. 

To-day  hundreds  of  thousands  of  voters  are  only 
waiting  the  call  to  arms  by  a  Napoleon  before  de- 
serting the  old  parties,  and  this  is  true  of  many  party 
leaders  who  read  death  to  political  ambitions  if 
they  continue  to  cling  to  these  water-logged  and 
sinking  hulks,  which  are  years  behind  the  industrial 
needs  of  the  nation,  and  have  not  the  courage  or 
the  intelligence  to  re-chart  their  course. 

The  time  has  gone  by  when  flowery  language, 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  183 

honeyed  speech,  or  kissing  babies  can  be  the  bell- 
wether to  lead  the  business  man's  and  labor's  vote 
to  the  slaughter,  or  be  causes  upon  which  the  des- 
tinies of  nations  turn,  for  from  the  disorganized 
and  disturbed  industrial  condition  and  the  dis- 
satisfied elements  of  all  parties  a  new  party  must 
BE  BORN.  It  is  a  necessity  to  the  life  of  the  Nation. 
It  must  be  a  new  party, — new  in  every  part,  fear- 
less in  its  declaration  of  principles,  and  founded  on 
industrial  progress  and  the  necessities  of  the  people; 
and  the  palsied  and  atrophied  intellects  of  decaying 
political  parties,  weighted  down  with  maudlin  senti- 
ment of  past  deeds  and  ossified  traditions,  must 
give   way   to   the  progressives   of  all  parties, — the 

WORKMEN    AND    BUSINESS   MEN   WHO    DO  NOT  UNDER- 
STAND POLITICS,  BUT  DO  UNDERSTAND  BUSINESS. 


CONSERVATION. 

Conservation,  so  much  heard  of  at  the  present 
time  as  a  Government  policy,  means  the  economic 
use  and  saving  of  those  natural  resources  that  are 
still  a  part  of  the  public  domain,  a  tardy  recogni- 
tion of  the  rights  of  the  people  as  a  whole,  as  against 
the  people  as  individuals,  to  own  and  control  those 
natural  sources  of  wealth  that  are  in  the  people's 
name,  by  virtue  of  being  owned  by  the  Govern- 
ment. By  sequence  of  reasoning  backward,  we 
will  find  that,  had  this  policy  of  conservation  been 
made  a  part  of  our  Constitution  at  the  time  of 
seceding  from  English  Rule,  the  people  in  these 
United  States  would  be  the  richest  in  the  world, 
for  the  wealth  of  lands,  mines,  and  forests,  and  all 
the  Natural  Water  Powers  would  be  corporated  in 
our  Government  and  belong  to  the  people  collec- 
tively instead  of  individually. 

Conservation  by  Government  at  the  present  time, 
while   commendable,  is  a  farce  comedy  in  view  of 

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WORLD  CORPORATION"  185 


the  reckless  and  scandalous  way  in  which  the  Nation 
has  been  stripped  and  left  naked  of  its  wealth  and 
resources  by  thieving  representatives  of  the  people. 

By  what  right  a  Corporate  Government  gives  to 
Jim  Smith  a  section  of  land  in  Oklahoma  without 
return  of  any  kind,  without  being  obligated  to  give 
to  every  citizen  in  America  a  like  amount  on  demand, 
is  beyond  comprehension.  Why  shouldn't  the  Gov- 
ernment give  Jim  Smith  a  thousand  dollars  out  of 
the  treasury  of  the  people  just  as  readily  as  to  give 
him  a  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  land.?  In  either 
case  the  Government  (the  people)  is  giving  away 
to  individuals  what  belongs  to  the  people.  Is  it 
likely  that  the  United  States  Steel  Directors  would 
give  a  thousand  tons  of  rails  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  for  nothing  without  a  protest  from  the 
shareholders.?  And  are  not  the  people  shareholders 
in  the  Government,  and  what  it  owns.? 

It  might  be  argued  by  the  Government  that  giving 
away  lands  to  railroads  and  opening  up  districts  to 
settlement  developed  the  country.  On  the  other 
hand,  as  a  business  proposition,  it  can  be  argued  that 
the  Government  could  have  done  much  better  for  the 
people  if  it  had  retained  possession  of  all  lands  and 


186  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

natural  resources,  and  gone  into  partnership  with 
settlers,  miners,  and  operators  in  the  development 
of  these  natural  resources.  By  so  doing,  the  Govern- 
ment could  have  guaranteed  prosperity  and  assist- 
ance to  all  its  working  partners,  and  received  in 
return  a  vast  and  growing  income  for  the  people. 

World  Corporation  means  conservation  carried  to 
its  economic  limit,  both  in  Natural  resources  a  ad 
in  use  of  Brain  and  Manual  labor.  It  means  the 
instant  stoppage  of  the  giving  away  of  anything  that 
belongs  to  the  people,  the  quick  acquisition  by 
conversion  of  what  they  have  lost,  and  the  readjust- 
ment of  industry   on   an   economic  basis. 


THE   STANDARD  OIL  COMPANY. 

WHAT  DOES  IT  TEACH  US? 

The  mass  is  greater  than  any  individual  part, 
even  greater  than  the  Standard  Oil  Company,  which 
is  only  a  part.  When  we  look  upon  some  of  the  latest 
fighting  machines  of  our  Navy,  they  strike  us  as 
being  the  very  impersonation  of  concentrated  power 
of  mind  and  matter.  The  very  thought  of  the  energy 
sleeping  within  the  steel  walls  of  these  great  battle- 
ships and  the  organized  intelligence  ever  ready  to 
direct  it  to  a  purpose,  is  enough  to  paralyze  with 
fear  the  mind  that  would  rouse  them  to  action. 
Yet  they  are  but  childish  toys  compared  with  that 
other  monster,  ever  in  action,  that  is  silently  floating 
over  our  industrial  sea,  seeking  whom  it  may  devour, 
— the  Standard  Oil  Company. 

Born  about  forty  years  ago,  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  has  steadily  grown,  until  to-day  its  in- 
fluence is  felt  throughout  the  industrial  world  and 
in  the  Halls  of  Congress.     It  is  the  most  progress- 

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188  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

ive  and  economic  industrial  machine  the  world 
has  ever  known.  It  is  a  machine  moving  in 
every  part  with  mathematical  precision  and  ac- 
curacy; and  every  human  being  concerned  in 
its  operation  is  a  part  of  its  mechanism,  from  the 
man  in  whose  mind  it  was  born,  down  to  those 
who  are  but  human  cogs.  Each  has  his  place 
in  the  machine,  the  same  as  bolts,  nuts,  screws, 
and  pulleys. 

There  is  no  friction,  no  appeal  to  law,  and  no 
lawyers  required  to  adjust  its  interior  working;  and 
it  is  built  and  operated  upon  as  perfect  a  sys- 
tem of  industrial  economy  as  its  environment 
will  permit.  From  the  date  of  its  birth  until  the 
present  time  its  perfect  mechanism  has  kept 
PACE  WITH  its  growth,  and  year  by  year  it  has 
strengthened  its  position  and  extended  its  field 
of  operations. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company  combines  within  its 
corporate  body  and  by-laws,  with  a  few  modifica- 
tions to  nationalize  it,  all  that  is  essential  to  con- 
stitute a  perfect  government  and  a  perfect  industrial 
system  combined.  Within  itself  its  parts  operate 
together  as  smoothly  as  a  watch,  and  just  as  accu- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  189 

rately.     It  is    only   when    it    comes  in  contact 

WITH  THE  SYSTEM  OF  COMPETITION  AROUND  IT, 
TO  WHICH  IT  IS  COMPELLED  TO  ADJUST  ITSELF,  THAT 
IT    REQUIRES    THE    ASSISTANCE    OF    LAWYERS.      This 

shows  that  law  is  a  necessary  consequence  of 

COMPETITION,  and  ABSENCE  OF  LAW  THE  CONSE- 
QUENCE   OF    CORPORATION. 

If  any  machine  gets  out  of  order,  it  requires 
some  one  who  understands  its  parts  to  rectify  the 
trouble.  And  the  more  compHcated  a  mechanism 
is,  the  more  difficult  it  is  to  adjust.  Our  present 
industrial  and  governmental  system  which  con- 
stitutes our  industrial  machine  is  a  mass  of  conflict- 
ing parts  that  defy  analysis  or  understanding.  And, 
because  of  this,  it  is  necessary  to  employ  nearly 
half  a  million  expert  mechanics  called  lawyers 
to  adjust  the  difficulties  that  constantly  arise  be- 
tween the  individual  parts  of  the  machine  and  keep 
each  in  its  proper  place.  If  the  Standard  Oil  Com- 
pany were  extended  until  the  whole  field  of  industry 
was  brought  under  corporate  ownership  and  con- 
trol, then  all  parts  of  the  industrial  machine  would 
work  in  harmony,  and  lawyers  would  no  longer  be 
needed  to  adjust  property  rights  to  keep  the  ma- 


190  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

chine  in  order;  for  all  property  would  be  corporated, 
and  individual  interest  would  only  be  an  undivided 
stock  interest. 

Let  us  suppose  that  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
should  continue  to  absorb,  until  the  whole  machinery 
of  production  and  distribution  were  under  its  con- 
trol, and  it  had  acquired  all  property.  It  would 
still  be  individual.  It  would  be  the  only  individ- 
ual. It  would  no  longer  come  in  contact  with  other 
individuals  under  a  competitive  system;  and,  as  a 
consequence,    all    the    laws    of    property    and 

PROPERTY  RIGHTS  WOULD  BE  ABROGATED  or  beCOmC 

inoperative,  because  each  individual  interest  would 
be  merged  into  an  undivided  corporate  interest; 
there  would  be  No  Lawyers, — No  Politicians, — No 
Government.  The  Standard  Oil  Company  would 
be  the  whole  thing,  and  its  by-laws  would  be  the 
whole  constitution.  So  will  it  be  under  "World 
Corporation"  in  its  ultimate  form,  and  laws  as 
regards  individual  property  right  will  be  void. 

The  diflFerence  between  final  control  by  Standard 
Oil  or  by  the  people  is  apparent.  If  Standard 
Oil  succeeded  in  such  a  purpose,  it  would  mean  a 
continuance   of   Capital   and   Labor, — Stockholders 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  191 


on  one  hand,  and  Labor  on  the  other, — whereas, 
"World  Corporation"  will  mean  eventual  elim- 
ination of  shares  and  establishment  of  a  system  of 
equity. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company,  on  account  of  its 
great  earning  power  and  rapid  accumulation  of 
wealth,  finds  it  necessary  to  seek  new  channels 
of  investment.     And,    with    the    absorption    of 

NEW    industries,     IT     ABSORBS     MORE    INDIVIDUALS 

AND  BRAINS  and  grows  stronger  every  day.  It 
is  like  a  constantly  increasing,  well  -  disciplined 
army  marching  against  a  disorganized  mob.  It 
is  a  modern  twenty-inch  gun  against  a  bunch  of 
fire-crackers.  Where  will  it  stop.^  The  machine 
is  perfect,  its  power  to  advance  is  irresistible, 
its  only  opponents  an  incompetent  government, 
and  a  mob  whose  effective  force  is  minimized 
in  fighting  each  other.  Can  we  be  sure  that  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  will  not  absorb  the  whole 
field  of  industry.^  The  only  power  capable  of 
checking  its  advance  is  *' World  Corporation." 

Centralization  of  wealth  is  not  a  result  brought 
about  by  special  individuals.  If  our  great  trust 
magnates  had  never  lived,  the  Law  of  Economic 


192  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

Gravitation  would  have  operated  just  the  same.  If 
you  wish  to  reaHze  how  small  a  cog  you  are,  no 
matter  who  you  may  be,  step  aside,  and  instantly 
another  cog  will  be  fitted  in,  and  not  a  ripple  will 
disturb  the  industrial  sea. 

What  would  result  if  the  Standard  Oil  Company 
should  capitalize  the  present  market  value  of  its 
shares  on  a  basis  of  Dollar  Shares,  make  their  cor- 
poration progressive  and  unlimited  in  capital,  and 
issue  additional  shares  for  each  dollar  offered,  it 
being  understood  that  the  money  received  for  shares 
was  to  be  used  in  purchasing  shares  of  other  cor- 
porations.'^ Being  progressive  and  unlimited  in 
issue  of  shares  at  one  dollar  each,  shares  could 
never  rise  or  fall  in  value.  In  the  writer's  judg- 
ment, such  a  proceeding  would  result  in  the  very 
rapid  absorption  of  industries  throughout  the  world. 
It  would  be  "World  Corporation"  by  the  Stand- 
ard Oil  Company. 

The  Standard  Oil  Company  is  an  object-lesson 
well  worth  analysis  and  study:  it  embodies  prin- 
ciples of  government  and  industry  that  are  worthy 
of  imitation. 


UNITED  STATES    STEEL   CORPORATION. 

The  United  States  Steel  Corporation  employs 
225,000  people,  and  this  represents  600,000  people 
who  are  directly  or  indirectly  dependent  on  wages 
paid  by  this  Company.  When  you  come  to  analyze 
this  great  machine,  you  find  that  it  is  a  wonderful 
mechanism.  Its  225,000  employees  are  graded  in 
intelligence  from  the  Presidential  head  down  through 
the  Board,  the  Managers,  Superintendents,  Fore- 
men, Skilled  Workers,  and  Laborers.  In  this  Cor- 
poration, as  in  many  other  large  corporations, 
favoritism  does  not  enter  into  question  of  grading 
employees:  efficiency,  fitness,  and  intelligence  are 
the  qualifications  that  determine  each  individual 
position,  therefore  such  corporations  are  in  a  meas- 
ure operated  on  a  plan  of  intellectual  fitness,  and 
to  an  extent  its  working  force  is  positioned  on  a 
basis  of  equity,  as  is  proposed  for  '*  World  Cor- 
poration." Occasionally  an  incompetent  by  some 
pull  may  slip  by;  but  if  he  fails  to  make  good,  sooner 

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194  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

or  later  he  will  gravitate  to  the  bottom  or  to  some 
position  he  can  fill.  Taken  as  a  whole,  the  United 
States  Steel  Corporation  is  just  as  careful  in  fitting 
a  man  to  a  particular  position  in  its  mechanism 
as  in  fitting  the  proper  sizes  of  bolts  and  nuts  in 
their  train  rolls  or  determining  the  right  amount 
of  carbon  or  silicon  in  their  steel.  In  other  words, 
no  misfits  are  wanted  anywhere. 

Thus  we  see  in  United  States  Steel  an  effective 
mechanism,  employing  endless  complicated  ma- 
chinery, transportation  systems,  and  mining  in- 
dustries, in  which  are  fitted  225,000  human  parts, 
all  graded  on  a  basis  of  intellectual  fitness,  work- 
ing in  perfect  harmony,  whose  only  opportunity 
to  rise  is  by  increasing  their  intelligence,  by  which 
they  incidentally  increase  their  money  value  and 
earning  power;  for  it  must  be  understood  that 
intelligence  and  fitness  have  a  value,  and,  the  more 
skilled  an  individual  is  in  any  particular  work,  the 
more  he  receives  for  his  services.  This  is  exactly 
the  way  individual  fitness  and  position  will  be 
graded  in  "World  Corporation." 

If  we  consider  the  United  States  Steel  Corpora- 
tion from  the  standpoint  of  mechanism  and  pro- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  195 

ductive  power,  and  having  no  outstanding  shares, 
we  have  in  miniature  "World  Corporation"; 
that    is,    co-operation    of    individuals,    and    these 

INDIVIDUALS  GRADED  BY  INTELLIGENCE.      When  yOU 

get  outside  the  President,  Officials,  Board  of  Di- 
rectors, and  the  Managers,  Superintendents,  and 
Employees,  who  are  the  only  ones  necessary  to  the 
company's  management  and  operation,  you  divide 
the  result  of  labor's  product  with  more  than  400,000 
people  (stockholders),  and  you  begin  to  wonder 
what  these  people  do,  or  have  done,  to  be  so  gen- 
erously treated.  In  other  words,  stockholders  are 
a  part  of  tributary  industry,  a  dead  w^eight  that 
labor  carries  on  its  back.  The  real  capital  invested 
in  this  business  is  brain  and  manual  labor  which 
so-called  capital  (money)  buys  at  a  price,  and  turns 
around  and  sells  at  a  profit  (the  labor)  by  selling 
the  goods  produced  by  labor  at  an  advance  in  price. 
If  the  stockholder  did  not  exist  as  such,  both  the 
laborer  and  the  community  would  benefit  to  the 
extent  of  the  gouge,  and  a  further  benefit  would 
accrue  in  that  the  stockholders  would  be  compelled 
to  become  producers.  "World  Corporation" 
proposes  eventually  to  do  away  with  stockholders 


196  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

by  creating  a  sinking  fund  with  which  to  purchase 
its  own  shares,  after  which  dividends  will  cease. 

United  States  Steel  is  like  a  Military  Organiza- 
tion. It  has  its  Major  General  in  the  President,  its 
Military  Board  in  the  Board  of  Directors,  its  Gen- 
erals in  the  different  Officers  of  the  organization, 
its  Captains  in  its  Managers  and  Superintendents, 
its  Lieutenants  in  the  Foremen  of  Departments, 
and  its  army  in  the  Employees.  In  everything 
but  name  it  is  Military,  as  everything  should  be 
that  involves  operations  of  numbers  of  people  who 
are  combined  together  for  a  specific  purpose. 

"World  Corporation"  is  like  the  United  States 
Steel  Corporation,  stripped  of  stockholders  and  ex- 
tended to  infinity,  and  combining  in  one  vast  or- 
ganization all  the  people.  This  permits  of  the  ex- 
ploitation of  industry  by  scientific  process.  It  is 
perfectly  feasible  to  imagine  our  government  order- 
ing a  regiment  to  plant  wheat  in  Dakota,  another 
to  mine  gold  at  Camp  Bird,  another  to  pick 
oranges  in  California,  another  to  plant  cotton  in 
Texas,  another  to  survey  Alaska,  always  remem- 
bering THAT  UNDER  THE  LABOR  SYSTEM  PROPOSED 
THERE    WILL    BE    NO     COMPULSION     AND     NO     POSSI- 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  197 

BILITY  OF  NOT  GETTING  ENOUGH  APPLICANTS  FOR 
LABOR  TO  MEET  ANY  DEMAND;  for  by  the  "AUTO- 
MATIC Labor  System,"  labor  for  any  purpose  must 
be  available  at  a  price.  What  our  present  govern- 
ment can  do  in  war  we  can  do  in  peace.  Organ- 
ized industrial  armies,  instead  of  going  out  to  kill 
and  destroy,  will  go  out  to  produce  and  build  up. 
One  army  is  the  exact  complement  of  the  other,  ex- 
cept for  the  purpose  organized.  The  laborers  will 
be  the  common  soldiers  of  the  industrial  armies,  and 
they  will  be  supervised  and  directed  by  competent 
officers.  These  armies  will  cover  every  depart- 
ment of  industry,  some  moving  from  one  part  of 
the  field  of  raw  production  to  another,  others  being 
permanently  established  in  the  great  manufactur- 
ing plants  of  the  people. 


ECONOMIC  LAW  APPLIED  TO 
AGRICULTURE. 

In  the  production  of  wheat  and  its  distribution 
under  our  present  competitive  system  the  waste 
is  appalHng, — the  farmers,  the  elevators,  the  mills, 
the  scattered  cities  and  towns,  the  commission 
merchants,  wholesalers,  retailers,  bakers,  and  the 
great  division  of  interests  which  entail  an  end- 
less system  of  handling  and  transportation  by  rail- 
road cars,  steam  and  canal  boats,  by  horses  and 
wagons,  and  the  endless  tributary  system  of  in- 
surance, law  and  banking,  and  the  world-wide  net- 
work of  confusion,  loss,  and  extravagance,  to  all 
of  which  tribute  must  be  paid  by  every  pound  of 
wheat  before  we  get  bread  to  eat.  Under  "World 
Corporation"  there  will  be  no  handling  of  prod- 
ucts more  than  absolutely  necessary  between  the 
wheat  field  and  the  table.  We  will  calculate  the 
necessities  of  the  people  and  take  the  path  of  least 
resistance    in    meeting    these    necessities,    thereby 

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''WORLD  CORPORATION''  199 

reducing  the  macliinery  of  production  and  distri- 
bution to  its  most  economic  point. 

There  are  now  upwards  of  seven  milHon  farms 
in  the  United  States,  with  an  average  of  five  people 
on  each  farm,  or  thirty-five  milhon  in  all.  Of  this 
number  about  ten  million  are  actually  employed  in 
field  work,  and  they  are  only  employed  about 
FOUR  MONTHS  IN  THE  YEAR.  During  EIGHT  months 
these  farmers  are  confined  to  odd  work  about  the 
farm,  waiting  for  crops  to  grow  or  killing  time 
through  the  long  dreary  winters. 

Under  "World  Corporation"  farm  labor  to 
the  number  of  five  million  organized  into  armies, 
and  moved  in  companies  and  detachments  under 
the  supervision  of  skilled  agriculturists,  directed 
from  the  Central  Bureau,  will  cover  the  whole 
agricultural  field,  and  produce  in  products  many 
times  the  amount  now  produced  by  thirty-five 
million  people  isolated  on  farms.  Under  "World 
Corporation"  there  will  be  no  cities  and  towns 
in  the  agricultural  sections  to  be  maintained,  and 
their  cost  will  be  saved.  Cities  and  towns  tribu- 
tary to  farming  sections  under  the  present  sys- 
tem,  which    equal   in   population   the   whole   farm 


200  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

population,  are  an  overhead  burden  upon  products 
produced. 

It  is  only  necessary  in  imagination  to  wipe  a 
town  off  the  map  to  prove  that  it  is  only  a  tributary 
part  of  industry.  The  farmer  could  produce  just 
as  much  without  the  town;  and,  if  he  could  skip 
all  intermediate  grafters  and  jump  direct  to  the 
consumer,  and  in  return  get  back  other  products  on 
a  basis  of  equity,  he  could  produce  enough  by  his 
own  labor  in  one  season  to  keep  him  in  luxury 
many  years  of  his  life. 

Under  "World  Corporation"  agriculture  will 
become  a  science.  North  America  and  the  rest 
of  the  world  will  be  a  field  to  be  exploited  systemat- 
ically and  with  intelligence.  Every  square  mile 
of  territory  will  be  known,  the  quality  of  its  soil 
and  the  products  for  which  it  is  best  adapted  will 
be  scientifically  studied  and  utilized  by  the  agri- 
cultural department,  to  give  the  greatest  possible 
returns.  Progress  and  success  in  agriculture  does 
not  depend  on  the  manual  labor  employed,  but 
upon  the  intelligence  displayed  in  producing  qual- 
ity and  yield,  and  in  the  knowledge  of  soil,  climate, 
environment,  and  tools  and  methods  used. 


''WORLD  CORPORATION"  201 

Under  "World  Corporation"  wheat  will  be 
planted  in  enormous  tracts,  in  locations  best  adapted 
for  growing  same;  and,  by  the  elimination  of  small 
farms  and  small  fields  and  the  passing  away  of 
the  farm  fence,  machinery  of  large  capacity  and 
great  accomplishment  will  be  possible,  thus  sav- 
ing time  and  labor  in  accomplishing  results  and  in 
gathering  and  shipping  wheat  to  its  destination. 
It  will  be  found  an  economy  to  project  rail- 
roads direct  into  the  enormous  fields,  and  the 
wheat  will  be  loaded  and  transported  direct  to 
the  city  or  cities  of  the  people.  That  which  ap- 
plies to  wheat  as  an  economic  feature  in  produc- 
tion and  distribution  will  apply  to  every  other 
product. 

Military  methods  applied  to  agriculture  means 
bodies  or  groups  of  individuals  directed  in  their 
labor  by  those  experienced  and  high  up  in  this 
great  Department  of  Industry, — men  who  have 
attained  positions  in  the  industrial  field  analogous 
to  oflScers  in  the  army.  Such  an  army  will  go  into 
the  field  fully  equipped  with  its  railroad  trains, 
carrying  all  the  machinery  and  tools  required  in 
their  particular  field  of  labor,  and  food  and  sleeping 


202  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 


accommodations  necessary  to  care  for  each  indi- 
vidual. Under  this  system  an  army  could  be  organ- 
ized to  plant  a  million  acres  of  wheat  in  less  than 
ten  days,  if  properly  equipped  and  handled,  and, 
when  considered  from  a  business  standpoint,  this 
is  not  a  visionary  view  of  farming:  it  is  what  a 
practical  business  man  would  do  if  he  had  the 
power  to  direct  the  energies  of  the  people  and  con- 
trolled the  land  in  the  United  States.  He  would 
first  survey  his  lands  and  secure  expert  and  scien- 
tific knowledge  in  regard  to  soils  and  climates. 
When  this  was  done,  he  would  select  his  lands  for 
wheat,  corn,  oats,  potatoes,  cotton,  oranges,  grapes, 
apples,  etc.,  and  at  the  proper  season  send  his  armies 
or  groups  of  laborers  under  proper  supervision  into 
the  sections  where  work  was  to  be  done,  and  from 
time  to  time,  as  different  steps  were  needed  to  be 
taken,  other  groups  or  armies  would  follow,  until 
harvest  time,  when  the  crops  would  be  gathered 
and  sent  direct  to  storehouses  of  the  people.  This 
is  how  a  business  man  would  exploit  farming  in 
America.  There  is  nothing  wonderful  or  strange 
about  this.  It  is  a  simple  business  proposition. 
It  does  not  require  knowledge  beyond  that  which 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  203 

we  now  have.  It  is  simply  a  different  way 
to  farm — a  better  way.  It  is  "World  Corpora- 
tion." 

Because  farming  has  always  been  a  go-as-you- 
please,  brainless  proposition,  scattering  the  people 
of  the  earth  broadcast  without  design  or  purpose, 
is  it  any  reason  why  we  should  continue  in  the 
same  rut.f^  If  it  is  more  economical  and  better 
to  Corporate, — why  not  do  it.'' 

Under  "World  Corporation"  the  farm,  the 
town,  and  the  city,  as  we  know  them,  will  pass  out 
of  existence,  and  the  people  will  gradually  begin 
to  gravitate  to  one  great  living  centre,  from  which 
armies  of  workers  will  be  constantly  coming  and 
going,  covering  every  part  of  the  world,  remaining 
only  so  long  in  any  particular  field  as  the  labor 
demanded  required. 

Under  "World  Corporation"  the  farmer,  the 
miner,  and  others  moving  in  armies  over  the  earth 
will  be  able-bodied  young  men,  and  the  women 
and  children  and  men  of  middle  age  and  maturity 
will  be  living  in  the  great  city — the  heart  of  the 
world,  whose  every  beat  will  mean  progress,  and 
whose  arteries  extending  through  the  whole  world 


204  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

system  will  send  life  to  every  part  and  bring  in 
return  all  the  material  gifts  of  a  boundless  nature, 
a  fitting  reward  for  man's  intelligence  and  recog- 
nition of  Economic  Law. 


A  PREDICTION. 

The  absorption  of  industry  by  Corporation  is 
increasing  rapidly  in  the  United  States,  and  every 
year  it  compounds  in  ratio  of  speed  and  magnitude 
of  interests  brought  under  control.  There  are  rea- 
sons for  this.  The  larger  a  corporation  grows  and 
the  more  extensive  its  operations,  the  greater  be- 
comes its  economic  power  over  industries  in  com- 
petition with  it.  Sooner  or  later  these  industries, 
crowded  to  the  wall,  are  compelled  to  seek  absorp- 
tion into  the  greater  corporation  through  fear  of 
total  annihilation.  If  they  resist  too  long,  their 
opportunity  passes  and  never  comes  again.  Any 
industry  divided  into  many  competitive  parts  is 
extravagant  and  wasteful,  when  contrasted  with 
the  same  industry  under  corporate  control.  Take, 
for  instance,  the  Grocery  Trade  of  the  United  States, 
which  is  in  three  great  divisions, — Manufacturing, 
Wholesale  Stores,  and  Retail  Stores.  The  waste 
of  this  system  is  so  enormous  and  its  machinery  so 

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206  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

intricate  that  the  consolidation  and  corporation 
of  fifty  of  the  largest  manufacturing  corporations 
that  are  now  contributing  to  the  Grocery  Trade 
would  permit  of  an  economy  so  great  by  the  form- 
ing of  a  chain  of  Retail  Grocery  Stores  in  the  cities 
and  towns  of  this  country,  that  the  Grocery  Trade 
as  now  conducted  would  be  absolutely  destroyed: 
the  wholesale  grocer  would  pass  out  of  existence, 
and  a  majority  of  the  retailers  would  be  forced 
to  the  wall.  This  condition  also  applies  to 
hardware.  Only  twenty-five  of  the  largest  manu- 
facturers of  shelf  hardware  need  be  taken  into  a 
consolidation,  to  control  absolutely  the  hardware 
trade  of  America.  The  wholesale  trade  would  be 
side-tracked,  and  the  retail  shops  be  compelled  to 
come  into  the  consolidation  or  be  destroyed  by  com- 
petition. The  possibility  of  such  consolidation 
seems  remote  to  those  interested,  but  the  day  is 
fast  approaching  when  corporation  will  enter  every 
field.     The  law  of  economic  gravitation  must 

BE    RECKONED    WITH,     NONE    CAN    ESCAPE    IT.      The 

outcome  is  not  dependent  on  individuals,  but  upon 
a  force  that  is  driving  men  before  it. 

Ten  years  will  see  the  more  important  lines  of 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  207 

retail  business  under  absolute  corporate  control 
throughout  the  United  States, — i.e..  Dry  Goods, 
Groceries,  Drugs,  Hardware,  Stationery,  Meats, 
Fruits,  Tobacco,  etc., — and  these  in  turn  will  be 
absorbed    by    each    other. 

If  word  should  be  sent  broadcast  that  some  of 
our  great  promoters  and  financiers,  who  in  them- 
selves and  their  following  control  millions,  were  con- 
templating the  absorption  of  twenty-five  or  fifty 
of  the  more  important  manufacturing  industries 
that  contribute  to  the  Grocery  Trade,  with  the  idea 
of  forming  a  chain  of  retail  distributing  stores 
throughout  the  United  States  (without  giving  the 
name  of  any  manufacturing  plant  they  had  in 
view),  the  applicants  for  absorption  would  be  far  in 
excess  of  necessary  requirement  to  give  a  complete 
variety  of  goods  belonging  to  the  Grocery  Trade. 
The  promoters  could  pick  and  choose  whom  they 
would  absorb  and  the  price  they  would  pay;  for 
any  far-seeing  Board  of  Directors  of  any  Manufact- 
uring Plant  would  understand  the  precarious 
nature  of  their  position,  were  they  left  out  of  the 
combination.  Consolidation  of  the  Grocery  Trade 
is  much  easier  to  carry  out  than  was  the  formation 


208  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

)■ 
of   the   Steel   Trust.     It   does   not   require   the 

PURCHASE    OR    ABSORPTION    OF    THE    RETAIL    STORES 

OR  THE  WHOLESALE  STORE.  The  absorption  of  the 
more  prominent  manufacturing  plants  of  differ- 
ent products,  whose  goods  are  advertised  and 
known  and  whose  reputation  is  established,  would 
be  all  that  would  be  necessary  to  give  the  retail 
shops  of  the  corporation  a  complete  line.  Any  one 
familiar  with  the  Grocery  Trade  can  run  over  in 
mind  fifty  that  would  cover  the  whole  field.  Add 
to  these  the  direct  importation  of  such  foreign  goods 
as  were  in  demand,  purchased  in  such  quantities  as 
would  insure  the  lowest  cost. 

The  invasion  of  the  Grocery  Field  is  near  at  hand. 
Its  consolidation  offers  too  tempting  a  profit  to 
promoters  to  be  left  for  long  in  its  present  divided 
state.  Already  the  Tobacco  Field  is  covered,  and 
the  Drug  Trade  in  New  York  is  rapidly  being  ab- 
sorbed into  great  corporations.  The  ordinary  re- 
tailer cannot  compete  with  these  great  and  growing 
combinations  of  capital.  The  larger  they  grow,  the 
further  they  reach  out  and  absorb.  They  sell 
their  goods  cheaper,  and  the  public  will  go  where  it 
gets  the  most  for  its  money.     The  economies  of 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  209 

large  corporations  are  enormous  and  their  profits 
in  proportion.  They  limit  their  dividends,  and  their 
surplus  is  used  to  broaden  their  field  of  operations. 
Stockholders  in  large  successful  corporations  make 
profits  more  from  the  increasing  value  of  their 
shares  than  from  profits  paid  in  dividends  on  origi- 
nal investments. 

There  is  no  way  to  stop  the  consolidation  of  in- 
dustry, no  law  that  can  stand  as  a  dam  for  any 
length  of  time  and  hold  back  the  economic  force 
of  centralization  by  corporation  And  it  would  be 
the  crime  of  the  century  to  enact  an  obstruction 
law  if  it  were  possible,  for  in  Corporation  we  have 
discovered  the  open  sesame  to  a  system  based  on 
science,  which  must  eventually  bring  all  industry 
under  comprehensive  management  and  control. 


COMPETITION  FOR  WEALTH  IS 
CRIME. 

When  we  consider  the  terrible  social  and  indus- 
trial conditions  through  which  mankind  has 
struggled  upward, — the  groping  in  the  dark,  century 
after  century,  for  an  outlet  from  the  conditions 
under  which  he  lived,  the  incessant  civil  war  for 
existence  and  bread, — the  wonder  is,  not  that  man 
is  as  bad  as  he  is,  but  that  he  is  as  good  as  we  find 
him. 

Man  is  naturally  honest  and  inherently  progress- 
ive; but  his  struggle  for  life's  necessities  and  wealth 
has  brought  to  the  surface  every  evil  passion  and 
supplied  him  with  every  incentive  to  crime.  Self- 
ishness, under  our  system,  is  the  corner-stone  of 
success;  and,  no  matter  what  a  man's  outward 
seeming  may  be,  in  order  to  win  he  must  be  cold- 
blooded and  heartless,  and  a  criminal  in  whatever 
path  he  follows,  for  selfishness  and  crime  are  in- 
separable. 

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All  crime,  all  vicious  and  immoral  tendency,  has 
its  cause,  birth,  growth,  and  propagation  in  the 
selfish  foundation  of  our  system,  and  man's  de- 
generacy is  a  direct  consequence.  The  writer 
wishes  to  emphasize  in  the  strongest  possible  lan- 
guage these  great  truths,  ALL  crimes,  ALL  im- 
moral tendencies,  are  attributable,  and  can  be 

DIRECTLY  TRACED,  TO  OUR  COMPETITIVE  SYSTEM, 
AND, — WE  CAN  WIPE  OUT  ALL  CRIME  BY  CHANG- 
ING   THE    SYSTEM. 

As  soon  as  you  inoculate  a  nation  with  the  virus 
of  selfishness,  by  adopting  competition  for  wealth 
as  a  basis  of  industry,  and  make  individual  welfare 
dependent  upon  cunning,  trickery,  lying,  cheating, 
false  witness,  bribery,  and  all  manner  of  deception, 
just  so  quickly  do  you  turn  every  individual  into 
a  brute.  The  necessities  and  luxuries  of  life  be- 
come the  spoils  of  civil  war  in  which  each  individ- 
ual is  set  against  every  other  individual.  In  this 
battle  families  become  estranged,  friends  become 
enemies,  and  nations  war  with  each  other.  In  this 
struggling  Inferno  crime  has  its  birth,  men  sell 
their  honor  for  gold,  and  women  barter  their  virtue. 

Individually  man  only  differs  in  degree  and  direc- 


212  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

tion  of  development  one  from  the  other,  and  in 
every  instance  he  would  be  honest  and  progressive 
if  he  had  a  chance;  but  in  this  war  for  life's  neces- 
sities millions  are  trampled  under  foot  and  com- 
pelled to  resort  to  any  means  to  live.  As  a  result, 
the  law  of  survival  of  the  fittest  does  not  apply. 
Its  place  is  taken  by  the  law  of  cause  and  effect, 
which,  under  a  competitive  system,  operates  to 
have  those  survive  who  have  the  least  humanity 
and  the  most  brute.  How  could  it  be  otherwise? 
Does  not  individual  competition  for  wealth  offer 
a  premium  on  selfishness,  and,  with  selfish  desire 
dominating  the  mind,  is  crime  far  off.^ 

Our  present  Government  is  founded  on  consti- 
tutional laws,  IVIADE  TO  FIT  AN  INDIVIDUAL  COM- 
PETITIVE SYSTEM  FOR  WEALTH,  and  boiled  down 
to  a  few  words, — these  are  the  laws :  *'  You  are  born 
free  and  equal.  Go  out  and  fight  for  your  bread, 
and  God  save  those  who  can't  fight.  You  can  have 
all  the  land  and  all  the  material  wealth  in  the  world 
if  you  are  strong  enough  and  smart  enough  to  get 
it."  Is  it  possible  to  believe  that  justice  can  spring 
from  such  laws,  that  from  such  a  foundation  we  can 
build  a  superstructure  of  honesty  and  virtue?     Our 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  213 

present  system  is  cold,  heartless,  debasing,  and 
animal  in  all  its  features.  It  breeds  crime,  misery, 
unhappiness,  and  sorrow,  and  fills  our  insane  asylums, 
jails,  penitentiaries,  and  almshouses  with  its  vic- 
tims, and  lowers  the  best  of  us  to  the  instincts  of 
the  jackal,  with  cruelty  in  our  eyes,  sensuality 
in  our  features,  and  our  jaws  dripping  with  warm 
blood.  It  is  a  wonderful  system, — wonderful  in  the 
range  and  variety  of  crime  and  misery  turned  out 
of  its  hopper.  Have  you  the  courage  to  stand  with 
"World  Corporation"  and  fight  this  system, 
with  the  certainty  of  emancipation, — not  the 
emancipation  of  a  race,  but  the  emancipation  of 
All  Humanity? 


PAET   FOUR 


THE   OPEN   DOOR 


A  THOUGHT. 

"World  Corporation"  will  result 
in  a  new  civilization,  new  in  every  part 
of  its  structure  of  mind  and  matter.  The 
whole  aspect  of  nature  will  assume  new 
meanings  and  ends,  for  it  will  be  seen  by 
new  senses  of  interpretation.  With  our 
present  individual  knowledge,  we  cannot 
conceive  it;  or,  if  we  could,  we  would 
not  believe  it  possible. 


ENTHUSIASM. 

Who  is  there  wise  enough  to  predict  what  will 
result  after  *' World  Corporation"  has  been 
launched,  after  the  people  realize  what  its  success 
will  mean,  what  the  outcome  will  be!  Who  can 
foresee  to  what  degree  of  enthusiasm  the  people 
will  rise  in  their  desire  and  hope  for  emancipation! 
Man  is  emotional,  and  quickly  carried  forward 
upon  waves  of  popular  excitement;  and  it  is  these 
great  tidal  waves  of  emotion  that  mark  the  revo- 
lutionary changes  throughout  history.  The  gradual 
growth  of  a  thought,  an  idea  which  has  within  it 
a  germ  of  human  progress,  finds  its  culmination  in 
emotion,  and  change  is  brought  about  quickly  and 
decisively. 

The  thought  that  humanity  is  on  the  borderland 
of  a  new  system,  a  new  epoch-making  period  of 
the  world's  history,  is  spreading  from  mind  to  mind, 
and  rapidly  changing  preconceived  ideas  of  life 
and  man's  relation  to  man  and    to    nature.     The 

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218  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

fever  of  excitement  is  already  beginning  to  course 
through  the  veins,  and  only  waits  on  conviction  to 
burst  into  flame. 

The  elimination  of  competition  by  the  centraliza- 
tion of  industry  into  Corporations  and  Trusts,  and 
its  resulting  economies,  has  set  the  individual  to 
thinking.  He  begins  to  doubt  his  old  belief  that 
competition  is  necessary  to  progress:  he  asks  him- 
self questions  and  seeks  the  answers  in  his  own 
mind,  and,  when  these  answers  are  not  forthcoming, 
he  asks  others.  Discussions  are  heard  on  every 
hand  in  regard  to  corporations  and  trusts,  and 
newspapers  and  magazines  are  largely  devoted  to 
this  same  subject.  All  are  asking:  What  is  the 
outcome  of  this  evolution  that  is  taking  place? 
What  is  a  Corporation.'^  What  is  a  Trust .'^  Are 
they  not  miniature  corporate  governments  of  capi- 
tal and  individuals?  And  gradually  the  thought 
begins  to  dawn, — the  thought  which  is  going  to  rise 
to  a  culminating  point  within  the  next  few  years, 
and  carry  men  off  their  feet;  which  will  crowd 
out  every    selfish   idea, — the   thought   that   the 

EMANCIPATION  OF  THE  HUMAN  RACE  IS  IN  OUR  HANDS. 

By  a  single  stroke  humanity  can  change  a  system 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  219 

of  extravagance,  disorder,  injustice,  and  crime  into 
one  of  order,  equity  and  virtue.  Nothing  stands 
in  the  way;  for  where  is  there  any  difference  between 
the  control  of  a  part  of  industry  by  a  few  individ- 
uals and  the  control  of  all  industry  by  all?  This 
is  the  thought  that  will  be  acted  upon:  this  is  the 
thought  that  will  make  men  forget  self  and  pour 
their  minds  and  wealth  with  equal  prodigality  into 
the  treasury  of  "World  Corporation." 

Enthusiasm  is  the  foundation  of  power  which 
centralizes  force  and  destroys  every  barrier  between 
itself  and  its  purpose.  It  makes  an  army  out  of 
scattered  parts.  It  leads  to  "World  Corpora- 
tion." 


METROPOLIS. 

"World  Corporation"  must  gradually  central- 
ize the  divided  manufacturing  industries  of  North 
America  at  one  centre.  This  is  not  a  question  for 
argument,  but  a  fact.  There  may  be  industries, 
which,  because  of  their  peculiar  nature  and  require- 
ments as  to  climatic  conditions  and  environment, 
must  be  located  at  points  best  adapted  to  their 
needs;  but  of  such  there  will  be  few  when  compared 
with  the  great  mass  of  industries  that  will  gravi- 
tate to  one  centre.  The  same  law  which  centralizes 
and  brings  together  the  scattered  parts  of  a  par- 
ticular industry  when  brought  under  Corporate 
Control,  applies  to  the  centralization  of  all  plants 
of  industry  when  brought  under  control  of  "World 
Corporation."  This  means  the  building  of  a  cen- 
tral city,  for  w^e  cannot  maintain  and  keep  intact 
the  present  cities  and  towns  if  we  withdraw  from 
them  the  present  manufacturing  industries  and  the 

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"WORLD  CORPORATION''  221 

scattered  farming  interests  which  are  the  very  foun- 
dation of  their  existence.  There  will  be  ports  of 
entry  in  various  parts  of  the  world,  and  beautiful 
cities  for  rest,  recreation,  health,  and  pleasure, 
wherever  the  natural  surroundings  and  climatic 
conditions  are  an  attraction;  but  the  real  home  of 
the  people  will  be  where  the  activities  of  life  and  the 
seat  of  learning  are  centred. 

Scattered  cities  and  towns  are  parts  of  a  competi- 
tive system,  and,  like  scattered  plants  of  industry, 
they  are  wasteful  and  cannot  be  retained  under  a 
corporate  system.  When  manufacturing  begins  to 
centralize  and  the  control  of  the  agricultural  field 
and  field  of  raw  production  come  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Corporate  Mind,  the  people  will  begin 
to  gravitate  to  the  industrial  centre  and  the  great 
Metropolis  will  be  born.  Acquisition  of  the  agri- 
cultural field  and  its  organization  will  be  in  direct 
line  with  control  of  manufacturing,  and  organiza- 
tion, or  army  methods,  in  the  field  of  agriculture 
will  take  the  place  of  the  present  divided  system, 
movements  of  these  organized  bodies  being  di- 
rected from  the  Central  City.  This  means  the  de- 
population of  all  cities  and  towns  that  are  depend- 


222  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

ent  on,  and  tributary  to,  farming  sections.  Thus 
scattered  cities  and  towns  will  disappear,  for  there 
are  very  few  buildings  in  America  that  will  long  sur- 
vive after  they  are  deserted. 

When  we  speak  of  ninety  per  cent,  waste,  it 
will  be  better  understood  when  centralization  of 
the  people  and  industry  by  Corporation,  into  one 
or  a  few  cities,  is  considered  in  contrast  with  the 
maintenance  of  fifty  thousand  cities,  towns,  and 
villages  scattered  over  the  continent,  which  en- 
tails so  much  waste  of  energy  in  keeping  them  in 
repair  and  in  the  handling  and  distribution  of 
products.  Ninety  per  cent,  of  our  present  indus- 
trial plant  is  tributary  growth  that  contributes 
nothing  to  actual  necessary  industry,  but  multiplies 
the  cost  of  necessary  products  to  consumers  ten 
times.  In  this  plant,  consisting  of  thousands  of 
cities  and  towns  and  millions  of  small  stores,  fac- 
tories, mills,  and  workshops,  there  is  no  co-ordina- 
tion of  parts,  no  predetermined  purpose,  and  each 
individual  is  a  go-as-you-please  entity.  It  must 
be  so  under  a  competitive  system,  for  there  is  noth- 
ing to  hold  people  together,  no  means  of  deter- 
mining the  wants  of  the  people  or  supplying  such 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  223 


wants:   in  consequence  of  this,  our  whole  industrial 
system  is  chaos. 

It  was  not  the  Author's  intention  to  attempt  a 
picture  of  ''World  Corporation"  as  it  might  be 
when  the  people  had  attained  control  of  the  world's 
assets,  and  the  rearrangement  of  the  machine  of 
industry  had  begun.  His  reason  for  not  desiring 
to  do  so  was  because  it  would  be  a  speculative  in- 
dividual idea,  and  give  an  opening  for  unfair  criti- 
cism, and,  again,  because  a  single  intelligence  can- 
not grasp  or  picture  by  words,  even  in  faint  de- 
gree, the  possibilities  of  a  World  Corporate  Mind. 

A  World's  Fair  is  the  co-operation  of  Nations, 
States,  Cities,  and  Individuals  for  the  purpose  of 
representing  man's  intellectual  and  material  prog- 
ress. The  whole  is  carried  forward  on  a  co-opera- 
tive plan,  by  which  all  parts  are  blended  together 
in  harmonious  relation,  the  idea  aimed  at  being  to 
centralize  and  show  in  miniature  the  progress  man 
has  made  in  the  arts,  sciences,  mechanics,  and  in- 
vention, thereby  disseminating  knowledge  to  the 
mass  of  individuals,  and  raising  the  general  average 
of  intelligence.  Individual  exhibitors  undoubtedly 
have  the  ulterior  motive  of  private  gain  in  thus 


224  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

bringing  before  the  visiting  public  their  products; 
but  the  exhibition,  as  a  whole,  is  educational  and 
impersonal,  and  carried  forward  upon  the  supposi- 
tion that  it  will  promote  progress. 

The  White  City  in  Chicago  in  1893  was  material- 
ized into  life  from  a  Corporate  Mind,  made  up  of  a 
few  individual  minds.  Though  designed  for  tempo- 
rary purpose  and  constructed  of  wood  and  plaster, 
it  was  a  wonderful  conception  of  architecture,  art, 
and  beauty  that  brings  forcibly  to  mind  the  possi- 
bilities of  a  World  Corporate  Mind  building  a  city 
and  home  for  the  people, — not  a  city  of  wood  and 
plaster  for  temporary  use,  but  a  city  built  for  per- 
manency and  made  beautiful  because  it  was  to  be 
the  home  of  the  people. 

Our  present  knowledge  and  our  present  tools  are 
all  we  need  to  build  a  city  to  accommodate  all  the 
people  on  this  continent,  that  would  be  beyond  the 
imagination  of  any  mind  in  the  world;  for  such  a 
city  would  embody  the  best  imaginings  and  ideals 
of  millions  of  people  working  in  harmony  with  a 
common  purpose  in  view. 

Such  a  city  would  draw  upon  all  the  science,  art, 
and  engineering  talent  of  the  world,  and  the  knowl- 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  225 

edge  accumulated  would  be  sifted  and  refined  by 
the  Corporate  Mind,  adopting  always  the  best, 
until  the  city  as  a  whole  and  in  every  minute  de- 
tail combined  the  most  progressive  ideas  of  man. 
Every  building,  for  whatever  purpose  designed, 
would  be  a  sparkling  gem  set  in  a  diadem  of  gems, 
each  standing  alone,  separate  and  distinct,  an  ex- 
ponent of  architectural  progress  and  artistic  beauty. 
As  I  see  these  buildings,  they  are  small  cities  in 
themselves,  accommodating  in  comfort  and  happi- 
ness thousands  of  individuals,  containing  all  the 
conveniences  and  luxuries  of  the  most  advanced 
conception  of  home  life,  but  with  the  absence  of 
that  part  of  home  life  which  entails  care,  worry,  and 
anxiety.     Food    of    every    kind,    scientifically 

PREPARED  AND  SERVED,  WOULD  BE  A  PART  OF  THE 
INDUSTRIAL  SYSTEM  OF  "WoRLD  CORPORATION," 
AND  ALL  THE  LABOR  INCIDENT  THERETO  WOULD  BE 
SUPPLIED  AND  MAINTAINED  BY  "WORLD  CORPORA- 
TION** UNDER  ITS  GENERAL  SYSTEM  OF  LABOR  AL- 
READY DESCRIBED.  The  building  of  such  a  city 
is  simply  the  extension  of  the  same  economic  idea 
that  induces  a  manufacturer  to  abandon  a  badly 
located,  old,  worn-out  plant,  machinery  and  build- 


The  New  Municipal  Building  now  Nearing  Completion  in 

New  York  City. 

Reproduced  by  courtesy  of  Scientific  American. 


WORLD  CORPORATION'*  227 


ings,  and  build  a  modern,  up-to-date  plant  in  a  good 
location.     It  may  seem  like  a  waste  to  abandon  the 
old  plant,  but  in  reality  it  is  a  great  gain.     In  New 
York   City   at   the  present  time  a  new  municipal 
building  is  being  constructed  which,  it  is  said,  will 
accommodate  eight  thousand  people  in  its  offices. 
This  building  is  built  by  the  co-operative  effort  of 
the  people  and  paid  for   by  the  people.     What  it 
is  possible  for  the  people  to  do  through  its  munici- 
pal government  in  New  York   for  accommodating 
eight   thousand    employees,   it   is   possible  for  the 
people  to  do  in  the  building  of  home  structures 
under  "World  Corporation."    It  would  only  take 
ten  thousand  buildings,  holding  ten  thousand  peo- 
ple   each,    to    accommodate    one  hundred    million 
people.       Under    our    present    system    it    requires 
50,000  scattered  cities,  towns,  and  villages  to  accom- 
modate between  eighty  and  ninety  million.     If  the 
reader  will  contrast  the  economic,  mechanical,  and 
sanitary  perfection  of  a  building  holding  ten  thou- 
sand people  such  as  described,  with  a  town  of  ten 
thousand    population,    under    the   present    system, 
he  will  get  some  idea  of  the  wonderful  utility  and 
economy    of    the    systena    proposed.     Then,    if    he 


228  ''WORLD  CORPORATION" 

will  contrast  the  economic  perfection  of  a  city  con- 
taining ten  thousand  of  these  perfect  buildings  and 
their  possible  automatic  and  mechanical  system 
of  distribution,  with  the  scattered  fifty  thousand 
cities  and  towns  and  their  intricate  system  of  dis- 
tribution, he  will  be  able  to  understand  some  of  the 
ninety  per  cent,  loss  under  competition.  Would 
it  not  be  worth  while,  even  to  the  wealthy  class, 
to  give  up  time  and  money  in  order  to  forward  the 
building  of  this  city.'^  Would  it  not  be  a  period 
of  interest  in  the  history  of  the  world  that  would 
make  the  blood  race  through  one's  veins  with  pleas- 
ure and  excitement, — a  period  in  advance  of  all  past 
periods  and  in  advance  of  any  period  of  the  future, 
because  it  would  mark  a  turning  point  in  the  his- 
tory of  man?  To  see  this  city  rise  like  a  beautiful 
picture  sentient  with  life,  reflecting  the  very  es- 
sence of  progress  in  its  embodiment  would  make 
life  worth  living.  As  I  see  this  city,  it  radiates  in 
all  directions  from  a  centre, — the  great  "World 
Corporate  Congress."  Around  this  great  Con- 
gressional Building,  but  distant  from  it,  would  be 
the  circle  of  Administration  Buildings,  each  Ad- 
ministration Building  specializing  one  of  the  great 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  229 


divisions  of  industry.  The  next  circle  would  con- 
tain the  great  Chemical  Laboratories  and  buildings 
of  Technical  and  Experimental  Science  and  Re- 
search, which  would  cover  every  field  of  human 
endeavor  in  its  effort  to  understand  nature,  nature's 
laws,  and  the  combinations  of  material  substances 
and  their  relation  to  each  other. 

The  next  circle  would  be  the  great  Manufacturing 
Industries;  then  the  circle  of  Warehouses  of  the 
people,  for  there  would  be  no  stores;  then  Edu- 
cational Buildings,  Art  Buildings,  Museums,  Nurs- 
eries, etc.;  then  the  homes  of  the  people  radiating 
outward  in  every  direction. 

This  construction  of  a  city  permits  of  a  most 
economic  system  of  transportation  from  any  part  to 
the  centre,  where  all  the  activities  of  the  people  are 
located,  also  for  convenient  distribution  of  products 
outward  from  the  centre  to  the  great  home  build- 
ings. The  water,  sewage,  and  transportation  sys- 
tems SHOULD  BE  ABOVE  GROUND,  and  means  pro- 
vided for  the  protection  of  individuals  from 
weather  or  climatic  conditions,  when  moving  from 
one  part  of  the  city  to  another.  Both  of  these 
objects  could  be  met  by    the  construction    of  two 


Plan  of  Building  shown  by  the  Author  in  the  "Human.  Drift, 
Published  in  1894. 


WORLD  CORPORATION''  231 


open  chambers  throughout  the  length  and  breadth 
of  the  city,  the  lower  chamber  to  be  used  for  the 
water  system,    sewage  system,  electric   wires,  and 
the  transportation    system;    the  upper  would    be 
the  means  of  intercommunication  of  the  people  in 
moving  from  building  to   building  or   throughout 
the  city.     The  transportation  system  of  the  lower 
chamber  would  provide  the  means  of  distribution 
of  incoming  raw  materials  to  the  mills  and  facto- 
ries, the  incoming  products  of  consumption,  and  the 
systems  whereby  food  and  other  products  were  dis- 
tributed to  residential  buildings  of  the  city.    All 
parts  of  this  city  would  be  lighted,  heated,  and  its 
machinery,    elevators,    and    transportation   systems 
operated  by  electricity  from  a  central  power  plant. 
The  upper  or  outdoor  platform  above  the  cham- 
bers would  have  depressions  or  pits  made  of  steel 
and  lined  with  concrete  supported    on  steel  foun- 
dations.    These  depressions  would  take  up  all  the 
outdoor   space   between  buildings,  except  such   as 
was  utilized  for  walks  and  roadways,  and,  in  many 
instances,  be  several  acres  in  extent,  at  least  ten 
feet  in. depth,  and  filled  with  prepared  earth.     The 
whole  outdoor  part  of   the  upper  platform  would 


232  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

thus  be  made  into  a  beautiful  park  system  with 
avenues,  roads,  and  walks  lined  with  trees,  and 
lawns  made  into  gardens  dotted  with  beds  of  flower- 
ing plants  and  shrubs.  In  this  park  system  would 
be  the  buildings  of  the  city,  each  standing  sepa- 
rate and  apart  in  its  setting  of  nature,  a  gem  of 
architecture  and  art. 

These  homes  of  the  people  would  be  real  homes, 
not  hotels  or  apartments  as  we  understand  such, 
and  would  combine  everything  for  comfort,  econ- 
omy, convenience,  and  freedom  from  care  that  a 
Corporate  Intelligence  could  think  of.  Light,  air, 
and  roomy  expanse  would  be  the  first  considera- 
tion, and  their  only  likeness  to  our  modern  apart- 
ments would  be  that  individual  homes  would  be 
parts  of  vast  structures  operated  on  the  plan  of 
most  advanced  modern  hotel  methods,  the  service 
throughout  being  maintained  as  a  department  of 
the  *' Automatic  Labor  System." 

The  location  selected  by  the  Author  for  this  city 
is  that  portion  of  the  United  States  and  Canada 
surrounding  Niagara  Falls,  for  there  does  not 
appear  another  spot  in  the  world  so  well  adapted 
to  a  large  and  increasing  population.     Such  a  city 


''WORLD  CORPORATION''  233 

requires  an  inexhaustible  supply  of  pure  water, 
and  we  have  it  here  in  the  great  Watershed  that 
feeds  Lakes  Superior,  Michigan,  Huron,  and  Erie, 
whose  waters  find  their  outlet  over  Niagara  Falls 
into  Lake  Ontario, — 330  feet  below  Lake  Erie, — and 
from  Lake  Ontario  to  the  Ocean  by  way  of  St. 
Lawrence   River. 

By  striking  a  circle  at  Buffalo  of  forty  miles  radius, 
as  shown  on  the  accompanying  map,  a  territory 
is  outlined  that  is  perfectly  adapted  to  the  needs 
of  a  great  city:  first,  because  the  water  supply 
is  inexhaustible,  and  flows  uncontaminated  from 
the  Great  Lakes;  second,  because  the  city  lies 
from  one  to  three  hundred  feet  above  Lake  Ontario, 
which  would  give  a  perfect  system  of  drainage  and 
sewage;  and,  third,  because  the  difference  between 
the  level  of  Lake  Erie  and  the  level  of  Lake  Ontario 
is  330  feet.  The  difference  in  level  of  these  two 
lakes  and  the  amount  of  water  now  passing  through 
Niagara  River  means  millions  of  horse  power,  every 
pound  of  which  could  be  harnessed  and  used  in  the 
great  city.  The  plan  proposed  is  to  direct  the 
water  of  the  four  upper  lakes  in  its  course  to  Lake 
Ontario    (now    forming    Niagara    River)    through 


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''WORLD  CORPORATION''  235 

canals  or  conduits  across  the  narrow  neck  of  land 
lying  between  Lake  Erie  and  Lake  Ontario,  which 
is  20  to  25  miles  wide.  Welland  Canal  is  now 
operated  across  this  neck  by  a  series  of  locks.  Water 
directed  through  canals  or  series  of  conduits  would 
utilize  the  power  of  the  water  now  going  through 
Niagara  River,  and  even  the  water  used  in  the  city 
for  domestic  purposes  would  render  up  a  tribute  of 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  horse  power  in  its  dis- 
charge as  sewage  or  waste  into  Lake  Ontario. 

How  long  would  it  take  to  build  the  city,  and 
could  we  afford  to  build  it?  These  questions  are 
important,  but  the  answers  are  dependent  upon 
how  much  embellishment  we  are  willing  to  dis- 
pense with,  in  order  to  save  time  and  labor.  It 
could  not  be  expected  that  we  should  arrive  at  as 
beautiful  a  concept  in  attempting  to  do  the  work 
in  a  few  years  that  should  have  taken  a  hundred. 
If  we  sacrifice  embellishment  to  a  future  time  and 
content  ourselves  with  putting  up  steel  and  rein- 
forced concrete  structures,  we  could  put  up  ten  thou- 
sand buildings  for  the  homes  of  one  hundred  million 
people,  in  ten  years  at  most.  To  put  up  as  many 
such  buildings  per  year  as  we  desired,  would  simply 


236  ''WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

mean  a  multiplication  of  the  labor  and  material 
used  in  erecting  the  new  municipal  building  in  New 
York.  One  thousand  structures  per  year  would  give 
us  ten  thousand  in  ten  years,  and  these  would  ac- 
commodate one  hundred  million  people. 

It  should  be  possible  to  erect  one  of  these  build- 
ings in  a  year  with  five  thousand  workmen.  If  so, 
it  would  require  five  million  workmen  to  complete 
one  thousand  buildings  per  year,  and  ten  years 
to  complete  ten  thousand,  suflficient  to  care  for  one 
hundred  million  people.  In  addition  to  this  it 
might  take  five  million  more  workmen  during  that 
period  to  erect  the  Hall  of  Congress,  the  Admin- 
istration Buildings,  Departments  of  Industry,  Edu- 
cational Buildings,  Manufacturing  Establishments, 
Power  System,  Transportation,  Telegraph,  Tele- 
phone System,  Lighting,  Water  Supply,  Sewage 
Systems,  etc. 

In  considering  question  of  cost,  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  figure  in  dollars,  but  in  labor;  for  we 
would  have  millions  of  men  to  employ  who  are 
now  non-producers.  It  would  cost  no  more  to  supply 
these  millions  of  men  with  food,  clothing,  and  habita- 
tion than  it  does  now.     It  would  simply  mean  that 


"WORLD  CORPORATION''  237 

labor  in  building  the  city  and  its  industrial  build- 
ings would  be  paid  for  in  dollars  or  units  of  labor, 
or  in  shares  of  "World  Corporation,"  and  these 

WOULD  TAKE  THE  PLACE  OF  THE  DOLLARS  NOW 
BEING  PAID  TO  PEOPLE  IN  UNPRODUCTIVE  CHAN- 
NELS. In  one  case  you  would  have  at  the  end  of 
ten  years  the  most  beautiful  city  and  industrial 
plant  the  world  has  ever  seen.  On  the  other  hand, 
you  must  pay  out  the  same  money  to  a  non-pro- 
ducing class,  and  at  the  end  of  ten  years  your  money 
is  spent  and  nothing  to  show  for  it,  except  an  aggra- 
vated picture  of  the  Hell  we  are  now  living  in. 


OMEGA. 

*' World  Corporation"  means  the  absolute 
emancipation  and  freedom  of  woman.  All  that 
woman  has  attempted  to  do  for  centuries  to  throw 
off  the  yoke  of  man's  dominion  will  be  accomplished 
at  a  single  stroke;  for  it  must  be  self-evident  that 
under  "World  Corporation,"  where  intelligence 
is  the  only  factor  that  determines  position  in  the 
corporate  body,  sex  cannot  be  considered  with- 
out arbitrary  laws  and  the  destruction  of  the  equi- 
table basis  of  adjustment.  Woman,  under  "World 
Corporation,"  and  under  its  Labor  System,  will 
have  the  same  right  as  man  to  enter  any  depart- 
ment of  industry  which  she  is  capable  of  filling.  It 
is  true,  however,  that  under  the  refining  influences 
of  "World  Corporation"  and  the  absence  of 
those  features  of  our  present  system,  which  destroy 
the  true  feminine  qualities  of  mind,  that  woman 
from  choice  will  confine  her  industrial  labor  to 
avenues  of  feminine  character,  such  as  education, 
art,  and  the  sciences,  as  distinguished  from  the 
rougher  fields  of  labor. 

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Under  "World  Corporation"  man  and  woman 
will  be  free  and  equal  for  the  first  time  in  the  history 
of  the  world.  From  birth  to  old  age  each  will  fol- 
low their  path  of  inclination, — an  open  path,  as  broad 
and  free  as  though  it  were  trod  by  no  other  individ- 
ual,— and  the  whole  world  will  lend  itself  to  their 
progress.  Each  will  be  accountable  to  the 
Corporation  alone;  no  individual  will  be 
master;  no  individual  can  bar  the  way.  As 
they  advance,  every  door  will  open  to  the  pass-word 
"Intelligence";  and  the  desire  to  acquire  knowledge 
and  rise  to  places  of  preferment  in  the  Corporate 
Body  will  supply  every  incentive  to  ambition  and 
intellectual  competitive  effort. 

What  might  w^e  not  hope  for  if  our  great  philan- 
thropists and  our  self-sacrificing  givers,  of  whom  the 
world  has  millions,  in  greater  or  less  degree,  were 
to  pass  through  this  door  of  "World  Corpora- 
tion" and  invite  others  to  enter.?  Think  for  a  mo- 
ment what  influence  their  actions  would  have  upon 
the  decision  and  actions  of  others.  Under  such 
conditions  confidence  in  "World  Corporation" 
would  rise  to  compelling  force,  and  man  would  be 
emancipated  within  the  hour.  It  might  take  time 
to   complete  the  evolution,   but  the  emancipation 


240  "WORLD  CORPORATION'' 

would  be  now,  for  fear  would  die  when  we  could  see 
the  end.  There  is  nothing  to  fear:  man  can  suffer 
no  deprivation  or  want  in  the  great  evolution. 
The  same  productive  force  must  still  exist, 
and  production  must  multiply  many  fold  when  the 
stream  of  unproductive  labor  is  turned  into  pro- 
ductive channels. 

** World  Corporation"  stands  forth  the  cham- 
pion of  equity  and  justice  in  accord  with  Economic 
Law.  Its  birth  must,  and  ever  will,  determine  the 
great  dividing  line  between  the  reign  of  brute  and  the 
reign  of  soul.  It  is  the  triumph  of  mind  over 
matter  and  the  birth  of  divinity  in  man.  Who  can 
conceive  of  the  wonderful  possibilities  of  untram- 
melled ambition  and  the  unfolding  of  the  human 
mind  under  a  corporate  system!  Life  will  be  worth 
living.  Heaven  will  be  on  earth,  and  God  will 
reign  in  the  heart  of  every  individual  and  find  ex- 
pression through  the  great  Corporate  Soul.  Such 
is  "World  Corporation,"  such  is  the  world  which 
is  ours  for  the  asking.  It  is  not  a  vision  of  the 
future,  it  is  a  vision  of  now.  It  is  at  our  very 
door,  and  the  door  is  open.  The  dawn  of  a  new 
era  streams  across  the  threshold  and  lights  the  path- 
way of  the  future. 


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